ONE UK WINNER SCOOPS £122m JACKPOT
AUK ticket-holder has scooped Friday’s jackpot prize of £122m in the Euromillions draw, making them the fifth biggest ever National Lottery winner. The lucky player matched all five Euromillions numbers as well as the two Lucky Stars.
A claim was yesterday staked on the prize of £122,550,350.80. Camelot said the claim will now go through the process of validation. Subject to those checks, the prize will then be paid out.
The winning EuroMillions numbers were 04, 21, 34, 40, 47, and the Lucky Star numbers were 02 and 05.
Camelot’s Andy Carter, senior winners’ adviser at The National Lottery, said: “What brilliant news, one UK winner has scooped Friday’s massive £122m EuroMillions jackpot.
“They are now the fifth biggest ever National Lottery winner.”
It is the second UK EuroMillions jackpot winner this year, after another lucky ticket-holder won the £39m jackpot in the draw on New Year’s Day.
The lucky winner, whoever they are, may wish to celebrate with wine and flowers and could now afford more than 137,000 bottles of Krug Collection 1988 champagne, at £890 a bottle, or more than 6,000 Cullinan bouquets for an eyewatering £20,000 each. The win would also put them onto the top 1,000 on the Sunday Times rich list 2020.
The highest ever UK winner claimed a jackpot of £170m in October 2019, but chose to stay anonymous.
Colin Weir and wife Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, claimed the second highest prize – £161m – in July 2011. The couple set up the Weir Charitable Trust and made a donation to a community football club in Largs before Mr Weir’s death in 2019 after a short illness.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148m in August 2012 and the fourth highest UK winner – who took home £123m – also remained anonymous.
The record for the highest amount ever won in the Euromillions was set in February of this year, where a Swiss player took home €210m, the equivalent of almost £180m. Meanwhile, some of the biggest Welsh lotto winners over the years have included the Davies family from Monmouth, who scooped £61m on EuroMillions in 2016. Stephanie Davies, her boyfriend Steve Powell, her sister Courtney, her mum Sonia and Sonia’s partner Keith Reynolds made up the syndicate that won £12m each. And cancer survivor Les Scadding, from Caerleon, near Newport, scooped £45.5m in the EuroMillions. Mr Scadding, a mechanic and lorry driver, won the life-changing prize with his wife Samantha after buying the winning ticket at a Tesco store in Newport whilst his bank account was £68 overdrawn. And in 2017, six members of a syndicate from Neath Port Talbot won £4m each after a £25m EuroMillions win. The catering staff at Neath Port Talbot Hospital celebrated by handing in their notice, with the exception of one winner who had retired the year before.