The ex-binman, 35, made headlines around the world for hosting drug-fuelled orgies and demolition derbies with his winnings. Now skint, he told The Sun: “I hump around 50kg bags of coal and I chop the logs that are sold at filling stations. “My £10million vanished in just ten years and I don’t have a home or a car to call my own. But I’m not bitter.
Carroll starts work at 6am and regularly puts in 12 hours at a fuel merchant’s firm in Elgin, Moray. But he insists he has no complaints about the back-breaking work — and that frittering away his fortune was a blessing in disguise. He said: “I might deliver 150 sacks of coal a day. Sometimes I’ll get a tip of a few quid which is quite funny.
He went on: “Life isn’t all about money. It sounds completely crazy but I’ve never been happier than since I returned to work. “Going broke is the best thing that happened to me and, believe me, I had a great time doing it.” Carroll, from Downham Market, Norfolk, was 19 and wearing an electronic tag for being drunk and disorderly when he won £9.7million in 2002. 'EASY COME, EASY GO' Carroll became infamous for throwing Big Macs and nuggets at people from his cars, including a Mercedes van emblazoned with “King of Chavs”. In Press interviews, he boasted of frittering away £10,000 a day and bedding 4,000 women. But by 2012 his money had gone and he’d been barred from every pub for miles around. |