Anthea Turner Lottery draw on BBC One on 19 November 1994 with Noel Edmonds and Gordon Kennedy. She remained as sole host of the National Lottery Live until 20 April 1996, when she defected to ITV and the travel show "Wish You Were Here...?", becoming the second highest paid female television presenter in the UK, after Cilla Black. The relationship between Turner and her "GMTV" co-presenter Eamonn Holmes was frosty, with Holmes issuing an ultimatum to the "GMTV" management that he would leave if they did not sack his colleague; as a result of this Turner lost her job. After Bovey left
National Lottery (Ireland) jackpots, partly so that people living near the border with Northern Ireland would not abandon Lotto when the 6/49 British National Lottery began operations on 14 November 1994. At the same time, the National Lottery introduced computer-generated "quick picks" as an alternative to marking numbers on paper playslips. Some retailers now only offer the quick-pick option. For draws beginning on 26 September 1998, the National Lottery increased the cost of a line of Lotto from £0.50 to £0.75. At this time it also doubled the game's starting jackpot to £1 million and increased most of the game's smaller prizes by