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National Lottery results: Massive £61m EuroMillions jackpot is CLAIMED making lucky Brit richer than Stormzy & Dua Lipa
It is the first EuroMillions jackpot win of 2024
A WHOPPING £61million EuroMillions jackpot has been claimed, making one lucky Brit richer than Stormzy and Dua Lipa.
Allwyn, operator of The National Lottery, confirmed today that it received a claim for the eye-watering sum.
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The jackpot prize worth £61,708,231 was won by a UK ticket-holder in the draw on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.
Stormzy, one of the biggest names in the UK music scene, has a reported £26million in the bank.
Meanwhile, Dua Lipa has seen her wealth more than double in the past three years to take her fortune to an estimated £60million.
But both fortunes are blown out of the water by the jaw-dropping EuroMillions win.
Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said: “This is absolutely incredible news and we’re delighted that we’ve received a claim.
"This is the first UK EuroMillions jackpot win of 2024, following on from an incredible 2023 which saw six UK EuroMillions jackpots won, including a £111.7million win by an anonymous single ticket-holder in June.
“Our focus is now on supporting this latest lucky ticket-holder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.”
As with all major prizes, the claim will now go through the process of validation, which includes checks to ensure the Games Rules Terms and Conditions are adhered to and the integrity of The National Lottery is protected.
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Subject to validation, the prize will then be paid at an appointment with one of The National Lottery’s Winners’ Advisers.
Once the ticket has been validated and paid, the ticket-holder will then decide whether or not to go public and share their news.
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.
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By playing any National Lottery game, players generate £30million each week for National Lottery-funded projects.
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The first EuroMillions draw took place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: France's Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.
One of the UK’s biggest prizes was up for grabs on December, 4, 2020 with a whopping £175million EuroMillions jackpot, which would make a winner richer than Adele.
Another previous UK winner whose whole life was altered with their jackpot was a player who wanted to remain anonymous on October 8, 2019.
They walked off with a cool £170,221,000.
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