Update – January 2, 2024: Newport resident Finton Wallace, who was one of five finalists for Powerball’s $1 million grand prize during the broadcast of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024, wasn’t the lucky winner. Pamela Bradshaw of North Carolina won the $1 million, drawn just after midnight.
For five years in a row, the special drawing for the $1 million grand prize in the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” promotion will happen during the broadcast of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024,” the No. 1 New Year’s Eve special on television. This year’s special drawing will take place on Sunday, December 31 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
Finton Wallace, a proud resident of Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the five finalists who has the chance to walk home with the million-dollar prize. As an 81-year-old Navy veteran who worked as a banker in Rhode Island for more than 30 years, Wallace has entered his Powerball tickets for a chance to win a VIP trip experience in New York City and to participate in a random $1 million drawing. If he wins the $1 million, Wallace says he has a 20% chance of winning, and that’s a good problem to have. But when asked what he would do with the $1 million if he won, he said, “nothing fancy.”
Wallace is one of five finalists who has entered the Powerball for the chance to win the $1 million grand prize in the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” promotion. For more information on the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” promotion, visit www.powerballrockinve.com.
Newport resident in the running for ‘Powerball First Millionaire of the Year’ on Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve
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