Will it be you? Biggest EVER EuroMillions prize is up for grabs on Friday with £191million jackpot
- The largest jackpot won by a UK player was on May 10 and worth £184 million
- The jackpot has now reached its cap – and will not increase again before it is won
- A UK winner would become wealthier than singer Dua Lipa and James Corden
The biggest ever EuroMillions winner could be crowned next Friday as the jackpot mounts to £191 million – and therefore reaches the maximum allowed by the lottery.
It comes after National Lottery players failed to predict the main and lucky star numbers in Tuesday’s £186 million jackpot draw, meaning the prize rolls over to Friday.
The EuroMillions website says the jackpot has now reached the maximum of €230 million, or around £191 million – and so cannot climb higher before it is won.
Instead, any excess funds will pass to ‘the next winning tier’ – and the current jackpot can remain as it is for up to four draws.
If, by July 22, no-one has won the money, that draw will become a ‘Must Be Won’ draw – so someone will definitely walk away with the cash.
Either way, once this jackpot is won the EuroMillions will reset to its lowest amount, before climbing to a maximum of €240 million.
Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester scooped a record-breaking £184 million EuroMillions jackpot less than two months ago
A lucky winner on Friday would overtake the Thwaites if they snatched the record-breaking £191 million jackpot
On May 10 a British couple won the then-record-breaking jackpot of £184 million – and immediately bought a second-hand Volvo car.
The main EuroMillions numbers on Tuesday were 07, 10, 25, 45, 48 – while the lucky star numbers were 03 and 06.
Should a UK National Lottery ticket-holder match all the numbers in Friday’s draw, they would become richer than singer Dua Lipa, who has an estimated net worth of £36 million, and actor James Corden, who has an estimated net worth of £50 million.
They would also surpass Harry Styles, worth around £100 million, and Adele, worth around £150 million.
They would also be able to buy themselves a home on London’s billionaire row, where houses have gone for around £75 million in the past, or even the luxurious Doughty House manor in Richmond, worth £100 million.
Winners celebrated jackpot with £16.95 steak and chips meal at Miller & Carter restaurant
Pictured: A Miller & Carter steak
The Thwaites celebrated their lottery triumph with a £16.95 steak and chips at a Miller & Carter restaurant on a Gloucester trading estate.
During the celebration they toasted the memory of Mrs Thwaite’s father Tony Shearing, who died in 2015, and had always said: ‘Imagine if you won the Lottery.’
A family source told The Sun: ‘It was a low-key celebration, the Thwaites weren’t popping champagne but they enjoyed the moment with their extended family.
‘They were in such a celebratory mood — they left a sizeable tip.’
The restaurant has a rating of 4.7 stars on Facebook, with previous reviewers praising the ‘nice food and great service’, ‘amazing steaks’ and ‘perfect atmosphere’.
The Thwaites, who live just outside Gloucester, could have bought 10,870,000 plates of rump with their record-breaking jackpot.
They have since bought a second-hand Volvo, and embarked on a planned tour of the world, to include a trip to Hawaii and Texas
The lucky winner would topple the current British record-holders from the top spot, Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester, who scooped a record-breaking £184 million EuroMillions jackpot less than two months ago.
The couple, who have been married for 11 years, won the record-breaking £184,262,899 jackpot with a Lucky Dip ticket on May 10.
Mr Thwaite is a communications sales engineer at Opus, a Reigate-based computer services company, while Mrs Thwaites manages the business side of a hairdressing salon she runs with her mother Caroline and sister Rebecca in Tewkesbury.
Mr Thwaite has two children currently at university from a previous marriage.
They celebrated with a good steak at Miller & Carter – which would have only cost them £16.95 each.
Since the win, they are said to be eyeing up a £7.25million Cotswolds mansion near Jeremy Clarkson’s Cotswold farm.
Once of the first purchases they made with their winnings was a second-hand Volvo, costing £38,000.
A neighbour told the Sun: ‘They’re mega lottery winners but first and foremost they’re down-to-earth people who have worked hard their whole lives.
‘The car is smart, respectable and sensible — just like Joe and Jess.
‘You might expect them to go and buy a Ferrari or a Bugatti. Instead of living the high life, they’re pressing ahead with their original plan to do the house up and make sure things are sorted as they’d planned originally.
‘The fact that they’ve not splurged it all on sports cars or booze shows what great people they are.’
Joe previously admitted that he was ‘not a great car person’ and said his dream car
was a Skoda Superb estate ‘because of the amount of stuff you can get in the boot’.
The Thwaites, who have three horses, sheep, chickens and two dogs, have embarked on planning an international trip including visits to Hawaii and Texas, and it will include swimming with turtles in the Pacific and staying on a ranch.
Only 14 British players have ever won a jackpot of more than £100million.
The Thwaites’ win was the second time lucky numbers came up in a EuroMillions jackpot for a UK winner this year, with £109million claimed a few days after a big win on February 4.
UK lottery winners have the option of revealing their identity or staying annoymous.
From the UK National Lottery’s rich list, only three winners out of the ten chose have previously chosen to reveal themselves.
Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said that the EuroMillions could be celebrating its ‘biggest-ever winner’ on Friday.
‘Friday will be huge – with an incredible estimated EuroMillions jackpot of £191 million up for grabs, we could be celebrating our biggest-ever winner,’ he said.
‘Think of all the amazing communities that could benefit from a win of this size. Players should get their tickets early to be in with a chance of winning in this amazing draw.
‘Thanks to National Lottery players, more than £30 million is generated every week for Good Causes across the country.
‘This supports everything from local projects making a difference where you live, to our nations’ athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.’
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