£148m Euromillions winner, Adrian Bayford, 48, ‘grows close with glamorous businesswoman, 30, after week-long holiday in Cyrus’
EUROMILLIONS winner Adrian Bayford has reportedly grown close with a glamorous businesswoman after a week-long holiday in Cyprus.
The 48-year-old won a £148million jackpot in 2012 and was said to be selling off his estate and second hand music shops to move to Australia for a “clean break” after a divorce and three breakups.
However, it has come to light the dad-of-two has formed a close business relationship with “mumpreneur” Nikki Costello-Brummitt, who owns a website selling luxury holiday clothes for children.
The 30-year-old told The Sun Online that Adrian has put money into her business Look Like Cool through the Government’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, which offers tax relief to investors in small companies.
The single mum added that the former postman has given her office spaces in his estate and has become a shareholder in her business.
The pair also went on holiday together to soak up the sun in Cyprus last month.
However, Nikki insists their relationship is not a romantic one and that Adrian is just very supportive.
The mum-of-one said: “This is strictly a business relationship. He is a very intelligent man and a very, very good friend.
“He thought my business was a good idea and invested in it through the SEIS.
“He offers his help in a number of ways like with business advice and I do have offices within his estate."
Nikki said she first met Adrian about “six years ago” but said she couldn’t remember how because “it was so long ago”.
It is believed the pair met when he was engaged to former stable girl Sam Burbridge.
Sam has a lot of friends in the horse racing industry where Nikki’s then-husband Oliver Costello is a bloodstock manager at Newmarket.
Sam also previously worked for Nikki’s father Nick Brummitt, as reported in
When asked about her holiday to Cyprus, Nikki replied: “He didn’t take me, we went together.
“We paid for ourselves. Our kids get along well.
“We had separate rooms. There is nothing going on.
“I have a boyfriend.”
On her business website, Nikki describes herself as a “single mum with an obsession with all things beautiful”.
She said: “I have always wanted to inspire other single mums. I am a massive supporter of the ‘mumprenuer’.
“Adrian is also an avid supporter and that is a massive thing we have in common. He is a lovey, lovely man."
Nikki’s website is owned by her company Fashionbrandz Ltd, which was registered last June.
Company House records show that Adrian owns 20 per cent of her business, which was revealed in June this year.
Adrian has been unlucky in love since he won the jackpot six years ago.
He split from hospital cleaner wife Gillian 15-months after the jackpot win and started dating Polish sausage factory worker Marta Jarosz.
Then he got engaged to Sam, who fled with £300k of nags in January last year.
He was then snapped flirting with older barmaids at an Oktoberfest, in September, weeks after being dumped by Frankie and Benny’s waitress Lisa Kemp, 50.
She walked out earlier this year amid claims he had been sending saucy emails to his ex Marta, 34.
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Adrian has reportedly been selling off chunks of his 38-house property in Haverhill, Suffolk.
Close friends have said Adrian wants to “reinvent” himself after the super-rich life has got to him.
In contrast careful ex Gillian has established a property empire around her native Dundee, in Scotland, where she is married to ex-fraudster Brian Deans.
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