A SOUTHAMPTON granny who scooped a £1 million jackpot prize is planning a bumper Christmas celebration for her family this year.

Phyllis Porter, 71, thought she would have to cut back on festive pressies this year as money was a little tight. But now with £1 million in the bank she is planning to splash out with gifts for her two sons Lindsay, 40, Kevin, 38, and her four grandchildren - Adam, 10, Michael, 9, Bethany, 7, and Fleur, 4.

Widow Phyllis, who enjoys dancing and going to the gym, won the top prize when TV's Big Brother star Craig Phillips pulled her name from the draw run by a national newspaper.

Still shocked at her good fortune, Phyllis, or Phyll as she likes to be known, said: "I still haven't grasped it all yet but I am going to sit down and decide exactly what to spend the money on.

"These things happen when you least expect them - and they usually happen to somebody else."

She says she will stay in her two-bedroom home and she plans to keep her K-reg Ford for the moment.

"I don't need a fancy car but I might buy myself a new Fiesta with tinted windows - so I don't have to clean them.

"Maybe I could go on a cruise to the Caribbean and get Carole Smillie and Alan Titchmarsh to spruce the house and garden up while I'm sunning myself," she said.

Phyll correctly answered all of the 28 Millionaire Game questions posed in The Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People to reveal the six draw symbols she needed to qualify.

Then Craig went back to the Big Brother hot tub to pick the newspaper's first-ever £1,000,000 winner from the 55 finalists.

Each of the finalists had been given a random two digit number, all of which were hidden inside plastic balls and whirled around the tube in jets of bubbles.

Phyll's winning number was 95.