Adrian ‘Mr Lambo’ Portelli has announced the winner of his massive giveaway.
The billionaire bidder, 35, spent $15million buying all five Phillip Island homes on the 2024 season of The Block and gave them all away in a record-breaking raffle.
The house giveaway was earlier marred by technology issues which has forced him to postpone the announcement of the winner.
However he got back on track 24 hours later with over 111,000 viewers tuning in on Facebook.
Portelli called the winner, a 34-year-old woman from Ballarat called Holly, to give her the good news that she had won.
‘Oh my God, no f**ing way. I didn’t watch the live on purpose because I thought it would be bad luck,’ she Portelli during the call.
Adrian ‘Mr Lambo’ Portelli (pictured) has announced the winner of his massive giveaway
The billionaire bidder, 35, spent $15million buying all five Phillip Island homes on the 2024 season of The Block and gave them all away in a record-breaking raffle to a Ballarat woman
Holly opted to sleep on the choice between taking $8 million in cash or keeping all five properties.
The scheduled lottery through his company LMCT+ had hit a major roadblock on Thursday due to technical difficulties, with Adrian deciding to ‘pause’ the action.
The winner was due to be unveiled at 8.30pm on Boxing Day but the result has been postponed for 24 hours due to the issues.
A post shared to Instagram read: ‘NOTICE: Due to technical difficulties, winners will now be drawn tomorrow, 8:30pm AEDT. The promotion has ended at its stated time.
‘No more entries will be generated for this promotional giveaway. Thank you for your support and understanding.’
In a video, Adrian explained that the giveaway had closed at 8pm as planned, but due to the sheer volume of traffic on the website, the LMCT+ systems then crashed.
Though the issue was fixed on time, Adrian said he still postponed the raffle so he can ‘personally go over everything’ and ensure it is running successfully.
‘This is what happens when you run things live unfortunately, this is how you know it’s all legitimate because things like this happen,’ he said.
The scheduled lottery through his company LMCT+ had hit a major roadblock on Thursday due to technical difficulties, with Adrian deciding to ‘pause’ the action
‘It’s annoying, I’m frustrated but I’d rather be safe and preserve my company’s reputation and my reputation and not disappoint you guys or break trust in any way.
‘When I’m confident everything is working as it should be, we will be drawing the winners. 8.30pm tomorrow, we will be drawing the winner.
‘The guys will be working through the night, testing everything and making sure it’s above board and then we will continue.’
The lucky winner will either take home all five Phillip Island properties or $8million in cash.
LMCT+ ‘rewards club’ sees customers pay for different tiers of membership to receive entries in luxury giveaways.
During the 2024 finale of The Block, Adrian made history by purchasing all five of the properties for a huge $15million.
In his final year of bidding on the show, Adrian ensured Maddy and Charlotte Harry became the youngest ever winners when he bought their home for $3.5million.
Adrian’s company, LMCT+, has frequently raffled off properties from The Block, including last year’s $5million purchase of Steph and Gian’s winning home.
Shortly after buying up the entire plot of homes on Phillip Island, Adrian then announced his massive ‘resort giveaway’ through LMCT+.