tonight on "nightline" -- mega millions mystery. three people out there are holding winning tickets, but who are they? tonight the plot thickens in one small illinois town. and many maryland, a mega mess as we here for the first time from the woman who everyone thought was a winner. big girl chic. adead, queen latifah and everyone's favorite bridesmaid are standing up for full-figured fashionistas. mini skirts are flying off the rack. plus, he's got talent. two weeks ago a nobody, now an international star. no, it's not that guy from "lost." he's simon cowell's latest

unlikely discovery. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with cynthia mcfadden, terry moran, and tonight juju chang, this is "nightline". good evening, i'm juju chang. there may be 666 million reasons it's a mega mystery. while the rest of us have worthless slips of papers we know there's three winners in three states. while it just took a few seconds for the machine to spit out those six magic numbers, who picked them and who will profit is taking a lot longer to sort out. here's abc's ryan owens. >> reporter: tonight, the melg ga millions mystery only deepens. the maryland woman who told the "new york post" she had a ticket worth almost $220 million told us she needs to double-check. >> do you still have the ticker? >> reporter: she works at this mcdonald's outside baltimore. only about a quarter of a mile

from this seven-11 where the winning ticket was bought. she's not the only one confused. when she told the paper she won, her mcdonald's co-worker said, wait a minute, we won, too. they say she was part of their mcdonald's office pool. >> everybody give like $5 each to give for her to get the tickets. >> reporter: all of this backbiting, all of this angst, and, remember, we don't even know if she actually won a cent. what we do know is this scenario has played out plenty of times before. >> i think people who are in that position should learn a lesson from our case, that they do have responsibility and in order to protect themselves and to protect other members of the pool, they really should have ground rules straight. >> reporter: eric kahn and ruben sinenz represented five construction workers who in 2009 pooled their money with another

company employee, america loeps, for a chance at winning a $77 million power ball jackpot. lobes took an extended leave of absence from the job and returned to work four months later, only to tell his boss he was quitting. he won the lottery. lobes claims he bought the ticket alone and didn't use any pool money. a jury recently awoorded his co-workers $4 million each. >> given the stakes, you better be darn sure you make clear to everyone you've also bought personal tickets and these are my personal tickets and these are the pool tickets. otherwise, it's a recipe for disaster. >> reporter: don't think those mcdonald's employees in maryland aren't taking notes. now to the mega millions second big winner. the ticket was bought here in the sleepy illinois town of red bud. >> oh, my gosh! everybody just is guessing and rumors are flying. >> reporter: 3500 people live

here. everyone knows everyone, and everyone wants to know one thing. >> everyone is wondering who won it and how many won it, whether it's just one person or a bunch of people. i myself hope it's a bunch of people. >> reporter: we did our best to find out. this is the only happening place in town, maybe someone knows something here. inside one of the town's only bars, we came across gary leafer. according to the rumor mill, he is the big winner. >> i didn't win. i didn't win. >> reporter: he's gotten hundreds of congrat latory calls and at least that many text messages. >> congratulations, hey, did you win? >> reporter: gary says he's even had reporters camped out at his house. >> somebody says i won the lottery, and the great part about it is i didn't even buy a ticket. >> reporter: but, in this one-stop light town, no need to let the facts get in the way of a good story. take the latest rumor. the winners are a group of salesman at this car dealership.

dennis gladson says the calls never stop. what do they say? >> dennis, did you win? did you win? of course your answer is, if i won, you wouldn't be talking to me, as we speak. i just hope it's somebody that i know that won and they want to buy several cars for their family. >> reporter: illinois law says whoever gets the $218 million check must come forward at some point, but they have a year to stay in the shadows. remember, it's only been three days. the third winner bought the ticket in kansas, and that's about all we know. and maybe all we will ever know. the state allows lottery winners to remain anonymous, even the story where the ticket was bought isn't revealed. there are some mega millions winners more than happy to show their faces. across the country 161 players matched five numbers and won $250,000, including 29 californians. among them, this guy who's

already quit his job at an l.a. doughnut shop. new york had 17 second place winners, including a dozen employees of this sushi restaurant. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: as for the biggest winners, the people suddenly wealthier than any of us can fathom, tonight their identities remain a mystery. and, like any good one, this one may take some time to unravel. i'm ryan owens for "nightline," in red bud, illinois. >> thanks to ryan owens for following the money. up next, queen latifah rocks it. so does melissa mccarthy. have we entered the era of supersized and sexy? >> announcer: abc news "nightline" brought to you by breathe right nasal strips.

. it seems ironic that chic fashion models are getting emaciated, real women are getting curvier. the average american woman now weighs 164 pounds and wears a size 14 or 16. there's at least one company out that's challenged this thin standard and proved that being overweight or obese, doesn't mean you can't be glam. ♪ >> reporter: no one was shocked when she shoopd up a half dozen grammys. but adele showing her size 16 body on the cover of this month's vogue, now that got fashionistas attention. >> we spent a lot of time working on this pants. >> reporter: bucksom women like queen latifah and melissa mccarthy of "bridesmaids" fame are thumbing mr. plus-size noses

the uner skinny. they're launching their own line of clothes to cash in on the market. retailers are paying attention. enter fashion to figure, a new chain of stores providing stylish and glam clothes for women sizes 12 to 26. >> so much of the pain of being overweight is the inability to go into a store and buy what you want. >> yes. being exceptionalized and marginalized. >> reporter: michael caplin was studying for his mba when he noticed the latest trend, where an expensive look on the runway is created cheaply in stores. it was ignoring the plus-size market. >> this is like something of interest and it's $32. >> we don't have a dress in our store more than $40, and the dresses are in that range. that's our fast fashion model. people come into our store and will see new things every week.

new boxings show up in our store every day. >> reporter: does that coincide with the fact that a full-figured demo is lower income and looking for value? >> that's not why we do it. we do it because we think it's the best business model. >> reporter: michael brother toiled in retail for 20 years. little sister paily trained at nordstrom. their business model, enough with the size two. but no mu mus allowed. >> chic say mind-set, not a size range. >> watch amanda transform before your eyes. she's 17 and about to graduate from high school. >> she's going to italy. >> reporter: she's trying to clothes she never imagined herself wearing. it will me what you see there. >> i see a beautiful girl. >> reporter: with a little help from underpinning.

what's that for? >> it brings the woman's figure in one to four inches. >> reporter: garments like that make up 14% of fashion to figure steals and boost amanda's courage to try on a dress for the first time since she was six years old. >> i always felt like the girl who's the perfect friend to, like, a boy, and maybe this will hopefully get me, like a date or something. >> reporter: check out your daughter. >> oh, my baby! >> reporter: look at her. turns out full figure fashion is in the caplin's dna. their great grandmother was lane bryant, yep, that lane bryant, whose plus-size clothing empire includes nearly 850 stores and a billion dollars in revenue just last year. 13450e became a pioneering

businesswoman when her husband died. >> he left her a pair of earrings which she pawned for a sewing machine. >> reporter: their demo is a generation of young people whose obesity rates have tripled in the last 30 years. >> there are critics who say isn't this celebrating obesity? a size 26 is a 300 pound girl. that can't be healthy. >> we're not in the business of labelling people. i think we're really all about confidence. we are trying to make people feel confident and we're there for you no matter what size you are. >> i definitely think that people should always be health conscious, but i think you should be comfortable with who you are as a human being, whatever size it is. >> big smile, awesome. >> reporter: anna is a plus-size

model. she argues having sexy clothes options doesn't enable someone to be obese, quite the opposite. >> pants are like a paper bag every day. i would grow to fill that paper bag. whereas when i have something that looks awesome on me, i'm out, doing stuff. i'm with my friends and experiencing life. >> reporter: one is less likely to be on the couch eating a bag of chips. a woman after great grandma's heart. how do you think grandma would react? >> i think she would love it. i think she'd be pretty proud. >> reporter: and also a bit flabbergasted at how scommuj sexy plus-size fashion has become. no more frumpy fashions for anyone. . just ahead, brnt's got talent turns out an unlikely singing sensation from the

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in the last few weeks, a shy 280-pound teenager has been making major waves, first on british tv and then around the

globe via youtube. its his superstar voice and not so polished look that's captured hearts. nick watt brings us the full story of his homeland homeliest hero. ♪ >> reporter: in america, everyvesence charms. even "the voice" is supposed to be about "the voice." ♪ ♪ i'm free falling. over here on britain's got talent, occasionally we like to weave a different narrative. unlikely looking star shambles on stage.

jonathan is 17, prey to the bullies at school. >> it damaged my confidence quite a bit. >> reporter: he was paired with charlotte in music class. >> i'm protective of jonathan. >> reporter: eyes roll. and then ♪ >> jonathan, you are a future star. >> it wasn't just that he was overweight and homely looking, he didn't look like an opera singer. he looked like a heavy metal guy. >> reporter: he looks like that guy from lost, before you can say sinically manufactured pop act, there's a youtube clip fest. >> we're trained to think that only beautiful people can sing, but the other part of it, a lot of people that look like that don't really have the confidence. >> reporter: it's susan boyle

all over again. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: she came second but sold 14 million records worldwide. he had bad teeth and everything and won the show. >> i'm just moving the garbage. doing what i love doing and i'm just incredibly fortunate. >> i love your album. it's absolutely fantastic. >> he's the normal guy who's done well. everything was stacked up against him. he was bullied, in debt. he was shy and then he enters this competition and within two months of winning, he's number one in 17 countries in the world. i mean it's like a fairy tale story. ♪ >> reporter: now jonathan antoine is ripping up britain's got talent. simon suggested he ditch his friend and go it alone but he said no, he insists that she's

coming along for the ride. what a guy! but enough already, i'll buy his records. just stop trying to make me cry. i'm nick watt for "nightline," in london. >> admit it nick, you had goose bumps too. tonight we note for you. police have identified a man suspected of going to a shooting rampage today at oikos university a religious school in oakland california. the gunlman entered the university at 10:30 a.m. and fired multiple shots. 43-year-old former student and korean national is being held for killing seven people and wounding three others. he sur returned at a market earlier this evening. be sure to watch "good morning america" tomorrow for full details from the scene. tomorrow night on "nightline," we'll have cynthia mcfadden's intervwi