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How you can end the weekend RICHER than Glastonbury headliner with £164MILLION Euromillions jackpot up for grabs
The biggest Euromillion winners have been unmasked below
YOU could end the weekend richer than a Glastonbury Festival headliner by entering this weeks Euromillions jackpot.
The likes of Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA are set to be raking in the money when they take to the stage next week but you could eclipse their total earnings with a throw of the dice today.
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That's because an astonishing £164million is up for grabs for Brits on Friday and you'd be absolutely crazy not to put yourself in the running.
All you need to do is choose five numbers between 1-50 and two Lucky Stars between 1-12 and you're good to go.
You can even increase your chances of winning the life-changing money by playing up to seven lines of numbers and buying up to ten pay slips at a time.
Once you've paid your £2.50 entrance fee, you'll be on the road to a potential jackpot win.
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And with this week's winning total standing at a whopping £164m, you'll become richer than next week's Glastonbury headliners.
But with the draw set to be made tomorrow (Friday, June 21), the clock is ticking, so there's really no time to waste if you want to be in with a shout of winning the prize money.
And even if you fail, there's always next week, with EuroMillions draws traking place every Tuesday and Friday evening.
Played across nine European countries, there is a minimum guaranteed jackpot of €17m (£14.3m) every week.
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In fact, this can even roll over up to an impressive €250m (£211m), meaning the winners could become multi-millionaires.
In Tuesday's (June 18) EuroMillions draw, there were no first category winners for the €174m (£147m) jackpot, so a new jackpot of €195m (£164m) was generated.
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However, more than 2.4 million winners did scoop prizes in one way or another, with 29 per cent of them won in the UK.
But winners must remember that they only have limited time to secure their winnings.
As per EuroMillions rules, prizes in the UK must be claimed within 180 days of the draw date.
The biggest ever EuroMillions Jackpot win was pocketed by a UK ticket holder in July 2022 - but their identity remains anonymous to this day.
The lucky winner, who scooped a massive £195m, never made their names public following the whopping win.
But their incredible prize of £195,707,000, to be exact, saw them eclipsed the stunning wealth of Grammy-winner Adele and become the biggest National Lottery winner of all time.
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The second biggest EuroMillions winners are Joe and Jess Thwaite, who banked an eye-watering £184million in 2022.
The couple had bought a three-bed bungalow in a village in Gloucestershire just months before their big win but upped sticks as soon as they found out their lives had changed.
The Sun previously revealed how the Thwaites celebrated their jackpot with £16.95 steak and chips — and left a lucky tip.
But instead of a glitzy champagne bash the couple dined with their two kids, pals and extended family at a Miller and Carter chain restaurant on a Gloucester trading estate.
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And we know what their first ever purchase was after the winnings.
Joe and Jess spent a relatively modest £38,000 of their win on an understated used Volvo estate.
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- Anonymous winner - £195,707,000
A UK ticket-holder scooped the record EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19 2022 – the biggest National Lottery win of all time.
The holder, who remains anonymous to this day, amassed the fortune with just one lucky ticket.
- Joe and Jess Thwaite - £184,262,899.10
Britain's previous EuroMillions record holders were Joe and Jess Thwaite.
The couple won a record-breaking £184million jackpot in May 2022 and shared hopes of a Hawaiian holiday and a new horse box for their children's ponies.
Joe bought his winning ticket online on May 10, 2022, and the following morning received an email with good news.
As he learnt of the huge win, he was in disbelief and initially kept it for himself as he did not want to disturb his wife, who was sleeping.
Joe, a communications sales engineer, and Jess, who runs a hairdressing salon with her sister, have been married for 11 years and have two children.
- Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000
Colin and Christine Weir landed the colossal prize money in 2011 and were Europe’s second-biggest winners until someone in Italy won a jackpot worth £193m in 2019.
They splashed the cash at an astounding rate of £100,000 a week before tragedy struck.
But at the time of Colin’s death in December 2019 his share of the prize money had dwindled by around £40m.
He spent the millions living a life of luxury, forking out for sports cars, property and the football club he supported.
Colin and Christine divorced shortly before his death after being married for 38 years.
He left money for their children Carly and Jamie.
- Adrian and Gillian Brayford - £148,600,000
Adrian and Gillian won 190 million euros in a EuroMillions draw in August 2012, which came to just over £148 million.
But Adrian split from Gillian the following year because of the stress of the win.
The couple bought a Grade II listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room, but it was sold in 2021.
After divorcing in 2013, he failed to woo ex-sausage factory worker Marta Jarosz — but fell for stable girl Sam Burbidge.
She left him in 2017, taking 30 prize horses Adrian bought.
It might have worked out in the end for Adrian though as the former postman was seen smiling with ambulance worker Tracey Biles last year.
- Frances and Patrick Connolly - £114,969,775
Former social worker and teacher Frances set up two charitable foundations after she and her husband hit the jackpot.
They scooped almost £115 million on New Year’s Day 2019.
She estimates that she has already given away £60 million to charitable causes, as well as friends and family.
- Richard and Debbie Nuttall - £61,000,000
The couple from Colne, Lancashire, took home £61 million on January 30 2024.
Both 54, they were enjoying a holiday in Fuerteventura, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.
But they then discovered the big EuroMillions win.
Richard revealed they originally thought they had won £2.60, but then received another email telling the pair to check their account.
Other eye-watering anonymous winners:
- 2019 - £123million
Another anonymous winner scooped up a prize of £123,458,008 in the June Superdraw rollover.
- 2021 - £122million
Following nine rollovers, one ticketholder bagged the £122,550,350 jackpot last April.
The successful participant chose to remain anonymous.
- 2018 - £121million
Another anonymous winner found their fortune during the Superdraw jackpot rollover in April 2018, securing £121,328,187.
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