EuroMillions: Britain’s biggest-ever lottery winners to go PUBLIC after netting record £184m
BRITAIN'S biggest-ever lottery winner is about to go PUBLIC after bagging a record £184m jackpot.
Tuesday's jackpot winners are said to be a couple from Gloucestershire.
The couple have become the UK's largest-ever National Lottery winners.
Lottery operator Camelot said the couple will share some of their plans for the win and how it will transform the lives of their whole family.
The record was previously held by an anonymous ticket-holder who banked £170m in October 2019.
That lucky winner matched all seven numbers to take home £184,262,899.10.
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Astonishingly, it would take a Brit earning an average salary of £31,258 a whopping 5,781 years to earn the recent sum won.
Camelot’s Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor, said: “This is absolutely incredible news.
"Last night saw history made with the biggest ever National Lottery prize won by a single UK ticket-holder, and we’re ecstatic that we’ve now received a claim.
"Our focus now is on supporting the ticket-holder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing and record-breaking win.”
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Mr Carter has previously offered advice to anyone who wins a big pay-out.
He told Sun Online: "Take your time. When people do win, it suddenly becomes serious, so people aren't often as gregarious as they think they will be.
"It is a bit of a huge shock. And sometimes you can be sort of concerned with the shock, you forget to celebrate.
"And actually winning the lottery is a fantastic and amazing thing to happen to anybody.
"For your own sake, you want to look back and think actually, I shall never ever forget this.
"Because I think if anything happens to your life, if you get married, if you move house, if you have a child. You celebrate it.
"You take photographs of it, you record it, you remember it, you cherish it. And this is exactly the same."