EuroMillions winner who scooped £71MILLION jackpot to go public today
The unnamed winner, from Hereford, won the entire £71,057,439 jackpot on last Friday's Euromilions draw
A LUCKY punter has become Britain's 15th largest ever lottery winner after scooping a staggering £71 million.
The unnamed winner, from Hereford, won the entire £71,057,439 jackpot on last Friday's Euromilions draw.
He will be unveiled to the media at a press conference to be held at the Abbey Hotel, in Malvern, Worcs., today.
The mystery winner will join fellow UK millionaires whose lives were changed overnight, including one pair who scooped £160million.
He becomes the country's 15th largest lottery winner behind an an anonymous person scooped £73 million in May 2014.
The winning main EuroMillions numbers were: 03, 15, 24, 42, 46 and the winning EuroMillions Lucky Star numbers were: 09, 12.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said at the time of the draw: "One very lucky ticket-holder has scooped tonight’s massive £71M EuroMillions jackpot.
"The year got off to the luckiest of starts for UK EuroMillions players when Patrick and Frances Connolly from Northern Ireland scooped the entire £114.9M jackpot in the draw on New Year’s Day.
"On 1 March, EuroMillions created 40 guaranteed UK millionaires in one special night.
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"On average, around £30M is raised every week for projects across the UK, both big and small, including funding everything from local community projects to preserving the nation’s heritage.”
There is now an estimated £14 million jackpot for tonight's draw.
UK players have been enjoying a lucky streak in recent months.
Patrick and Frances Connolly, from Moira, Co Down, scooping £114.9 million in the EuroMillions jackpot on New Year's Day to become the UK's fourth-biggest lottery winners.
Their win followed builder Andrew Clark, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire, discovering in November he had won £76 million, six weeks after the draw.
No one scooped the £500,000 Thunderball jackpot.
The winning Thunderball numbers were 17, 20, 30, 15, 25 and the Thunderball number was 06.
The first EuroMillions draw was held on February 7th 2004, by three organisations: France's Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.
In 2011, Colin and Chris Weir won an eye-watering £161,653,000, ranking them higher than Beatle Ringo Starr and Sir Tom Jones on the Sunday Times Rich List.
The couple, who worked as a Psychiatric nurse and TV cameraman and studio manager gave three million in donations to SNP since their win.
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Children's nurse Gillian Bayford, 40, and her record seller husband Adrian, 41, from Haverhill, Suffolk, won £148,656,000 in 2012 - although the pair split up 15 months after their win.
When Adrian found out they had become multimillionares he rushed to tell his wife who told him to be quiet as she was trying to get the kids to sleep.
The odds of winning any EuroMillions prize are 1 in 13.
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