Ex-colleagues of EuroMillions insist they’re not jealous

1. Colin and Chris Weir: £161,653,000

The husband and wife of 30 years from Largs in Ayrshire, who have two children, became Europe’s biggest lottery winners in July 2011 with the massive win.

The £161 million prize catapulted them into the Sunday Times Rich List above Beatle Ringo Starr and Sir Tom Jones.

Psychiatric nurse Mrs Weir and Mr Weir, who worked as a TV cameraman and studio manager for 23 years, have reportedly bought a fleet of cars for friends since their win as well as a mansion.

The couple donated £3.5m to the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, and have also pledged £4.5m to the Scottish National Party since 2011. 

Colin and Chris Weir won a total of £161,653,000 in July 2011, instantly catapulting them into the Sunday Times Rich List

2. Adrian and Gillian Bayford: £148,656,000 

Children’s nurse Gillian and former postman Adrian, from Haverhill, Suffolk, won the massive prize in August 2014.

The couple split 15 months later after nine years of marriage, with Bayford famously proposing to Sam Burbidge, who recently left him in a well-publicised break-up.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford won £148,656,000 in 2014 and bought luxury holidays and cars after the windfall

Adrian and Gillian Bayford won £148,656,000 in 2014 and bought luxury holidays and cars after the windfall

She now lives near Dundee in Scotland while he has the £6million mansion near their original home.

Gillian, 45, recently split from her her fiancée Alan Warnock, 46, following a three-year engagement.

3. Anonymous: £113,019,926

One ticket-holder scooped the massive prize in October 2010 but decided not to go public.

4. Neil Trotter: £107,932,603

Neil Trotter, 44, of Coulsdon, south London, who runs a repair garage in Mitcham called Chameleon Coachworks, became the National Lottery’s fourth biggest winner.

He purchased a Grade II listed mansion with its own lake and 400 acres of land in Cowden, Sevenoaks.  

5. Dave and Angela Dawes: £101,203,600

Dave Dawes a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, hit the EuroMillions jackpot in October 2011.

It was only the third time the couple, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, had played the lottery.

Dave Dawes, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, won £101million

Dave Dawes, a shift supervisor for Premier Foods, and Angela Dawes, a volunteer for the British Heart Foundation, won £101million

6. Anonymous: £93,388,943 

The windfall was won in June 2015 but the winner did not go public.

7. Anonymous: £87,570,000

The seventh biggest ever lottery jackpot winner in the UK instantly became worth more than Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe (£78m) and musician Ed Sheeran (£52m) following their win in July 2017. 

8. Anonymous: £84,451,320

The haul was won in May 2010 but the winner kept their identity secret.

9. Anonymous: £81,381,673

One lucky British ticket-holder picked up £81million in a EuroMillions rollover.

10. Nigel Page: £56,008,113

White van man and sky-diving enthusiast Nigel Page, 43, won a £56 million windfall in February 2010.

Mr Page, who lived in a three-bedroom semi near Cirencester, Wiltshire, married his girlfriend Justine, 42, and moved into a mansion in the Cotswolds.

It was reported that he paid ex-wife Wendy, 43, who he separated from 10 years previously £2 million after she made a legal claim for £8 million.  

Infamous winners 

1. Jane Park: £1million

The 21-year-old won the price but later slammed gambling chiefs at Camelot, which runs the competition, for ‘ruining her life’.

She famously invested in a £4,500 breast enlargement operation, and £18,000 Land Rover and a Louis Vuitton handbag. 

2. Michael Carroll: £9.7million

Carroll, who became known as the ‘King of the Chavs’ famously won the windfall in 2002 at the age of just 19, but frittered it away. 

The former binman spent £340,000 on a six-bedroom home in Swaffham, Norfolk, then spent a further £400,000 on garish upgrades including a car racing track in the garden.

But he later developed a crack addiction and his lavish spending brought him to the brink of poverty and he was declared bankrupt in 2010.

3. Mukhtar Mohidin: £17.9million

In 1994 Mukhtar Mohidin made history by becoming Britain’s first National Lottery multi-millionaire, winning £17.9million. 

When he bought the magic ticket in Tesco, he was a 42-year-old chemical factory shift-worker, living with his wife, Sayeeda, and their three young children, in a redbrick terraced house in Blackburn, Lancashire.

But he turned his back on his family life and working-class roots for heavy-drinking, escorts and gambling. 

He died this year at the age of 64. 

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