Latest Euromillions winners come from area with TWELVE big winners
Welsh family who won £61m are from "Gwent Triangle" of lottery millionaires
THE Welsh family who scooped a £61m EuroMillions jackpot come from the "luckiest area in Britain" where at least TWELVE lottery millionaires have been made.
The area of South Wales is nicknamed the "Gwent Triangle" and is home to soccer fan Les Scadding - who bought his own football club after winning £45.5m in 2009.
Mr Scadding's millions helped to return Newport County to the football league while he was the sugar daddy chairman of the club.
Not all of the lottery winners are from the county of Gwent itself but they all live in South Wales.
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There have been nine jackpot-winning tickets from the area, with two of them bought by syndicates - meaning there are 12 lottery millionaires.
Mum-of-three Jenny Southall also lives in the "triangle", and went from earning just £9,000 a year to become an overnight multi-millionaire.
The cinema supervisor from Newport won £8.3 million in April 2007 and shared her winnings with her large family.
The triangle's most recent winners were Pontypool couple Stephen and Keri Chick who claimed a £1 million lotto cash prize last year.
Pub landlord Nigel Willetts, 48, from Bedwas, near Caerphilly, won the same amount from the Euromillions in 2014.
Susan Wall from Abertillery won £2.4 million in September 2007 and Joanne Gilbert also from Abertillery, won £1.4 million in April 2007.
Retired miners John Ackerman and John Stinchcombe from Crumlin, shared a massive jackpot of £11.6 million in July 2006.
The triangle's first lotto millionaire was Hiram Jones from Blaenavon, scooping £1 million in December 1996.
Sonia Davies and her two daughters Courtney, 19, and Stephanie, 23, will each enjoy a mind-blowing £12,220,488.58 share of their enormous £61m jackpot.
Stephanie's partner Steve, 30, and Sonia's partner Keith Reynolds, 55, are the other two lucky winners in the five person syndicate.