Who are the UK's ten biggest EuroMillions winners?
A single EuroMillions ticket-holder could become the UK's biggest lottery winner.
Friday's jackpot of an estimated £208m would be the largest prize the UK has seen, National Lottery operator Allwyn said.
Here are the 10 biggest UK lottery wins to date – all from EuroMillions draws – and what some of the winners did with their fortunes.
– Anonymous, £195,707,000
A UK ticket-holder scooped a EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19, 2022.
– Joe and Jess Thwaite, £184,262,899.10
Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped a then record-breaking £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on May 10, 2022. PA Media Joe and Jess Thwaite (Andrew Matthews/PA).
At the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister.
– Anonymous, £177,033,699.20
A UK ticket-holder became the third biggest National Lottery winner after receiving a £177m jackpot.
The winner, who chose to remain anonymous, came forward to claim the EuroMillions jackpot after the draw on November 26, 2024.
They became immediately wealthier than popstar Dua Lipa, who is worth an estimated £104m, and Michael Buble, worth around £63m.
– Anonymous, £171,815,297.80
A UK ticket-holder scooped £171,815,297.80 in the September 23, 2022, draw – at the time the country's third biggest National Lottery win.
– Anonymous, £170,221,000
The fifth biggest winner of the National Lottery to date scooped £170m in 2019 after matching all the numbers in a Must Be Won draw on October 8.
– Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000 PA Media Colin and Chris Weir (Andrew Milligan/PA).
Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, bagged their historic winnings on July 12, 2011, making them the biggest UK winners at the time.
Colin invested £2.5m in his beloved Partick Thistle FC, which led to one of the stands at the stadium being named after him.
He later acquired a 55% shareholding in the club, which was passed into the hands of the local community upon his death in December 2019, aged 71.
The couple also set up the Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 and donated £1m to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. They divorced in the year of Colin's death.
– Adrian and Gillian Bayford, £148,656,000
Adrian and Gillian, from Haverhill, Suffolk, won 190 million euros in a EuroMillions draw on August 10, 2012, which came to just over £148m.
The couple bought a Grade II-listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room, but it was sold in 2021, some years after the pair divorced. PA Media Adrian Bayford and wife Gillian (Sean Dempsey/PA)
– Anonymous, £123,458,008
The eighth biggest National Lottery winner won a Superdraw rollover jackpot on June 11, 2019, and decided not to go public with their success.
– Anonymous, £122,550,350
After nine rollovers, one lucky ticket-holder bagged more than £122m in April 2021.
– Anonymous, £121,328,187
Another of the UK's top 10 lottery winners found their fortune through a Superdraw jackpot rollover, this time in April 2018.
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