Lottery Winner’s Twin Does ‘Double’ Take

Eric and Marc Daily look so much alike that their father used to paint their toes different colors in order to distinguish between them.

They are identical twins.

So when Eric won $6.3 million in the California Lottery on Saturday, no one was surprised when he told television interviewers that he planned to give $1 million of the prize to his “loving brother, Marc.”

No one but Eric, that is . . .

Eric had gone up to Sacramento to spin the lottery wheel, and he had spent the night there. The tired-but-smiling young man television crews had interviewed later Saturday at his apartment in Thousand Oaks--the one who was so free with a million--was twin brother Marc, who said he was talked into the impersonation by mutual friends.

“I never thought it would get on the 11 o’clock news,” he said.

Still, he wasn’t too embarrassed when he confessed the hoax Wednesday. And Eric said he didn’t mind at all; in fact, he said he might decide to give his brother a few dollars at that.

“But . . . not a million.”