British lottery ticket-holder comes forward to stake claim for £109.9MILLION EuroMillions jackpot from Friday night’s draw
- A single UK ticket matched all five Euromillions number and two Lucky Stars
- The £109.9million makes the lucky winner richer than Gary Barlow’s £90million
- It is the seventh biggest win ever for a UK ticket holder in the EuroMillions
A claim has been staked for the £109.9 million jackpot won by a single UK ticket-holder in last Friday night’s EuroMillions draw, Camelot said.
The winning main numbers were 03, 25, 38, 43, 49 – while the the winning Lucky Star numbers were 03 and 07.
A single UK player matched all five Euromillions numbers as well as the two Lucky Star numbers to scoop the top prize.
A claim has been staked for the £109.9 million jackpot won by a single UK ticket-holder in last Friday night’s EuroMillions draw, Camelot said
Top eight EuroMillions draw winners in Britain
Here are the eight biggest UK winners of the EuroMillions draw so far:
1) An anonymous ticket holder wins the £170million EuroMillions prize in October 2019 – Britain’s biggest ever jackpot.
2) In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir from Largs in Ayrshire became Europe’s biggest lottery winners at the time when they scooped more than £161million. The couple said they were ‘not scared’ of the wealth because they were going to have ‘so much fun’ with the money.
3) Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012.
The marriage ended just 15 months into their new jackpot winning lives, citing the stress of the money as the reason they needed to split.
4) An anonymous ticket holder hook home £121m
5) Patrick and Frances Connolly from County Armagh scooped a £115million EuroMillions jackpot on New Year’s Day 2019
6) An unnamed ticket holder claimed just over £113million in October 2010, and chose not go public.
7) An unnamed UK-ticket holder staked claim for the £109.9 million jackpot won in the EuroMillions draw on Friday, February 4, 2021
8) Neil Trotter, from south London, won nearly £108million, going from former car mechanic to multimillionaire in March 2014. Neighbours in Croydon described he and partner Nicky Ottaway moved out ‘almost overnight’ after they scooped the EuroMillions jackpot last March.
9) A couple from Cambridgeshire, Dave and Angela Dawes, won more than £101million on their third go on the EuroMillions draw in October 2011. Mr Dawes said he ‘didn’t sleep a wink’ the night of the win, as it was too late to call Camelot after the couple checked their numbers.
Camelot had been urging players to check their tickets to see if they are the jackpot winner after nobody came forward to claim the prize over the weekend.
On Friday, Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said: ‘What an amazing night for a single UK ticket-holder who has scooped tonight’s whopping £109.9 million special EuroMillions Super Jackpot.
‘Players are urged to check their tickets and give us a call if they think they are tonight’s lucky winner.’
The huge jackpot means the winner will immediately have a bigger fortune than former boyband stars Harry Styles at £75million, and Gary Barlow at £90million.
The lucky new multimillionaire will even be nearly as wealthy as Adele, who has a fortune of £130million, according to The Sunday Times rich list.
In October, a French ticketholder won a record £184 million EuroMillions jackpot which saw a surge in entries because of the massive prize.
The largest previous jackpot was £180 million (€210million) which was pocketed by a Swiss ticketholder in February.
The biggest UK winner of the EuroMillions was an anonymous ticket holder who won £170milllion in October 2019.
In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir from Largs in Ayrshire became Europe’s biggest lottery winners at the time when they scooped more than £161million.
Mr Weir died in 2019 at the age of 71 after a short illness, his lawyer confirmed. That summer, he and Mrs Weir were granted a divorce after 38 years of marriage.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012.
The marriage ended just 15 months into their new jackpot winning lives, citing the stress of the money as the reason they needed to split.
The biggest recent UK winners to go public were Frances and Patrick Connolly, from Northern Ireland, who scooped a £115 million prize in 2019.
The Euromilions jackpot is capped at £184million. At that point it cannot roll over again and stays at that level for a further four draws if no-one claims the winnings.
It must be won in the fifth draw and if no ticket matches all the numbers it is shared among all those ticketholders at the next prize tier where there are winners.
More to follow.
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