Ticketholder comes forward to claim £110MILLION EuroMillions jackpot prize, Camelot says
- BREAKING: Camelot received a claim for a £110million jackpot-winning ticket
- The life changing prize money was scooped by a lucky ticket holder on Friday
- Only 15 UK players have ever won a jackpot worth more than £100million
A claim has been received for the £110,978,200.90 EuroMillions jackpot prize from the Friday, September 2 draw, Camelot said.
Once the ticket has been validated and paid, the winner will then decide whether or not to go public
There will be no information on whether they are an individual or syndicate winner, or where the ticket was purchased, unless the ticket-holder decides to go public, Camelot said.
The winning main numbers on Friday were 7, 12, 13, 20, 45 – while the winning Lucky Star numbers were 03 and 12.
The huge jackpot means the winner will immediately have a bigger fortune than former boy band stars Harry Styles at £75million and Barlow at £90million.
Only 15 UK players have ever won a jackpot of more than £100million, with the record-holders winning £195million in July.
The winning numbers from Friday’s draw were 07, 12, 13, 20 and 45 – while the Lucky Stars were 03 and 12
It comes just weeks after a EuroMillions ticket holder from the UK claimed a record jackpot of £195million.
The ticket holder broke the previous EuroMillions record of £184million collected by British couple Joe and Jess Thwaite in May.
Gloucestershire couple, Joe and Jess Thwaite celebrated a £184 million win from the draw on 10 May, exactly a month before a UK ticket-holder, who also chose to remain anonymous, scooped £54 million in the draw on 10 June.
Earlier this year, a £109 million jackpot was cooped from the draw on February 4 in which both winners remained anonymous.
About the latest win, Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said: ‘This is absolutely incredible news and we’re delighted that we’ve received a claim.
‘Our focus is now on supporting the ticketholder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.’
The staggering £110million would pay for 391 houses, based on the latest UK average prices, Premier League team West Bromwich Albion or seven Bugatti La Voiture Noires, the most expensive car in the world.
Death, divorce and giving millions to charity: What happened to UK’s previous biggest lottery winners
Joe and Jess Thwaite last month scooped a huge £184m jackpot in what is now the second biggest lottery win.
An anonymous ticket-holder held the previous record, taking £170million to the bank in October 2019 – one of only 14 players to have ever won a jackpot of more than £100million.
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.
MAY 2022: Joe and Jess Thwaite
Jackpot: £184m
Mr and Mrs Thwaite celebrate by popping a bottle of champagne after revealing themselves as the winners of the grand prize this morning
Joe and Jess Thwaite, a couple from just outside Gloucester in their 40s, won a £184,262,899 jackpot with a Lucky Dip ticket on May 10.
The lucky pair, who have been married for 11 years, said they wanted to go public at hotel in Cheltenham as they did not want to put the ‘burden’ of keeping the secret on others.
Joe is a communications sales engineer, while Jess manages the business side of a hairdressing salon she runs with her mother Caroline and sister Rebecca in the affluent riverside town of Tewkesbury.
They have eight-year-old twin daughters together, while Mr Thwaite has two grown up children currently at university from a previous marriage.
The couple said they would share the win with extended family, with Mr Thwaite’s ex-wife saying she was ‘over the moon’ for them.
Until recently the couple lived in smart four bedroom home where their priority was ‘DIY’ jobs around the property, but admitted their two children have ‘always talked about going to Hawaii’.
January 2019: Patrick and Frances Connolly
Jackpot: £115m
EuroMillions lottery winners, Frances and Patrick Connolly pose during a photocall at the Culloden Hotel near Belfast, on January 4, 2019
Former social worker and teacher Frances Connolly and her husband Patrick won almost £115 million on New Year’s Day in 2019.
She has already given away £60million to charity, as well as sharing her winnings with her friends and family, saying she is addicted to helping others.
Mrs Connolly, 55, from Northern Ireland, has already busted the charity budget she agreed for this year with husband Paddy – and has given away what they would have donated up to 2032.
She said helping others, whether with money or by volunteering her time, lifted people’s spirits during lockdown.
The lottery winner has set up two charitable foundations, one named after her late mother Kathleen Graham in their native Northern Ireland, and the PFC Trust in Hartlepool, where the couple have lived for 30 years.
The couple, who have three daughters – Catrina and twins Fiona and Natalie – are not extravagant with their wealth and Mrs Connolly has no desire to buy a yacht.
Their biggest expenditure after their win was a six-bedroom house in County Durham with seven acres of land, while Mr Connolly drives a second-hand Aston Martin, but Mrs Connolly scoffed at the idea of spending £13,000 on a console table.
When she saw a TV show where someone in Monaco spent £25,000 on a bottle of champagne, she immediately thought that could have put a young person on the property ladder.
August 2012: Adrian and Gillian Bayford
Jackpot: £148m
Adrian Bayford and then wife Gillian, from Haverhill, Suffolk, pictured in August 2021 after it was announced they had won a jackpot of just over £148 million
In August 2012, Mr and Mrs Bayford won 190 million euro in a EuroMillions draw, which amounted to just over £148 million.
The couple used their winnings to buy a Grade-II listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room.
But within a year their marriage ended and Gillian moved back to Scotland with her half share of the winnings, where she launched a property company.
She has since remarried and had her third child with her second husband.
Bayford remained in the Grade 2 listed property but after a series of relationships failed he put it up for sale and moved north to be closer to his children.
July 2011: Colin and Chris Weir
Jackpot: £161.6m
Chris and Colin Weir, who were later divorced, celebrate after winning jackpot of £161.6million in July 2011 – the then record for a lottery haul
Colin and Chris Weir, from North Ayrshire, bagged a jackpot of £161.6million in July 2011 – the then record for a lottery haul.
Mr Weir sadly died aged 71 in 2019, eight years after he won the jackpot.
Mr and Mrs Weir, 62, were granted a divorce during the summer after 38 years of marriage. It is understood that they had been living apart for nearly a year prior to his death.
They had two children together, Carly and Jamie.
Mr Weir was known for his support for the SNP and his love of Partick Thistle Football Club.
He secured a majority stake in the Glasgow club in a seven-figure deal – and promised to give the 55 per cent shareholding to a fans group.
Mr Weir also helped the Jags to set up the Thistle Weir Youth Academy and a section of the club’s Firhill Stadium was named the Colin Weir Stand in his honour.
A former STV cameraman, he also made a donation to a community football club in his home town of Largs after setting up the Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 with his wife.
They had both been forced to give up work early and nursed each other through years of ill health before they became the 22nd richest people in Scotland after their £161,653,000 win.
Overnight, they entered the Sunday Times Rich List above Beatle Ringo Starr and singer Sir Tom Jones but shunned the lavish lifestyle decided to go on holiday to Brighton following.
One of the first items Mr Weir purchased following the amazing jackpot win was a checked sports jacket similar to the one worn by Scotsport legend Arthur Montford.
The couple ended up buying a number of homes, including for their son Jamie, who was working in a call centre, and daughter Carly, who was studying photography. They also bought homes for their close friends.
Soon after the life-changing windfall, they moved out of their own three-bedroom home into Knock House – a mansion set in 23 acres of gardens and woods in the hills above Largs, complete with cinema, pool and stables.
They bought it for £850,000 before selling it in 2016 to an overseas trust in a £1.4million deal.
They also went on to replaced their humble Suzuki for a £160,000 fleet of cars for the couple, their family and friends.
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