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EuroMillions pays out £122 MILLION jackpot to Brit making them the fifth biggest ever winner
EUROMILLIONS has paid out a £122 million jackpot to a lucky Brit, making them the fifth biggest ever National Lottery winner.
The £122,550,350.80 prize was validated after the draw on April 2.
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Lottery winners can sign an agreement for full publicity if they want to release information about them, but the latest lucky Brit has chosen to remain anonymous.
Other players also wanted to remain nameless in the past, including the biggest ever winner who scooped £170,221,000 in October 2019.
In June 2019, a person won £123,458,008 but did not agree to share their identity publicly.
Another player who scooped £121,328,187 also wanted to remain anonymous.
The couple who won the second-highest prize in the UK agreed to share their details.
Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in Scotland, netted a huge £161,653,000 on July 12, 2011.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Haverhill, Suffolk, picked up £148,656,000 after they played the draw on August, 10, 2012, while Jane Park became Britain's youngest lottery winner when she scooped up £1 million in 2013.
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On April 2, Camelot’s Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said: "What brilliant news, one UK winner has scooped tonight’s massive £122M EuroMillions jackpot and they are now the fifth biggest ever National Lottery winner!
"This is the second UK EuroMillions jackpot winner this year, after a lucky ticket-holder scooped the £39M jackpot in the draw on New Year’s Day.
"Players are being urged to check their tickets and to give us a call to claim this fantastic prize."
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.
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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.
They walked off with a cool £170,221,000.
The odds of winning any EuroMillions prize are 1 in 13.
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