Full list of 10 biggest UK lottery wins after £177,000,000 EuroMillions jackpot

One fortunate ticketholder won £177,000,000 erstwhile the EuroMillions numbers were drawn connected Tuesday nighttime – but it’s lone the third biggest jackpot of each clip successful the UK.

The grounds was acceptable and breached – and astir breached again – successful the abstraction of conscionable 4 months successful 2022.

Last night’s gully knocks the lowest of that year’s large wins to the 4th spot successful a ranking of the highest sums of each time.

Although £177million doesn’t rather nab the apical spot, it would beryllium a genuinely lifechanging sum – if and erstwhile idiosyncratic claims the prize.

But arsenic immoderate lottery winners person found, that alteration isn’t ever good.

So who are the 10 reigning EuroMillions champions who’ve won the biggest ever UK lottery jackpots?

10. Frances and Patrick Connolly – £114,969,775

Originally from Northern Ireland, Patrick and Frances Connolly were the 4th biggest winners erstwhile they it the jackpot connected New Year’s Day, 2019.

They splashed their cash connected a batch of things – Jaguar, Aston Martin and Alfa Romeo cars, and a County Durham Mansion with 7 acres of land, and gifts worthy £60million for their household and friends.

A grant-giving foundation – PFC Trust – they founded funds assemblage groups successful Hartlepool, wherever they moved for enactment successful 1990.

It’s go specified a backbone of the foundation sector, scammers masqueraded arsenic the Connolly mates to connection currency to 50 radical if they deed 10,000 subscribers connected a bogus YouTube channel.

But the precise archetypal happening they bought with their winnings was a brace of M&S underwear

9. Anonymous – £121,328,187

The individuality of the idiosyncratic who won this April 24, 2018 Superdraw jackpot has ne'er been revealed aft their chose to enactment anonymous.

8. Anonymous – £122,555,350

This jackpot started arsenic conscionable £14million earlier rolling implicit each the mode the all-time spot of the UK’s ninth biggest lottery prize connected April 2, 2021.

The winner, however, has kept their individuality a secret.

7. Anonymous – £123,458,008

Another anonymous victor bagged this Superdraw jackpot connected June 11, 2019, aft it rolled implicit from a erstwhile draw.

6. Adrian and Gillian Bayford – £148,656,000

The beingness of a lottery victor isn’t each glitz and glam. Sometimes it’s a catastrophe – and Adrian and Gillian Bayford tin attest to that.

Since winning successful August 2012, the joined mates are nary longer married.

Gillian present has a conviction for threatening her ex-boyfriend, home maltreatment foundation idiosyncratic Gavin Innes, who she pushed and shouted astatine successful 2017.

She past joined convicted fraudster Brian Deans, earlier ditching him due to the fact that helium begged oregon much and much wealth aft blowing the monthly allowance she gave him connected cars, watches and trips with friends.

Adrian, meanwhile, turned to eating 50 Cornish pasties a day to header with loneliness aft being dumped by younger women, 1 of whom helium dated portion sending saucy messages to an ex.

The 53-year-old since partnered up with fiancée, 46-year-old Tracey Biles, 46, who’s encouraged him to works a vineyard the size of six shot pitches astatine his property connected the borderline of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.

Now, they’re readying to crook 20 acres of the immense property into a children’s taxable park with a bid thrust and maze.

5. Colin and Chris Weir – £161,653,000

Within a decennary of winning the EuroMillions draw, Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs successful North Ayrshire, had divorced aft 38 years of marriage.

Colin died of sepsis and an acute kidney wounded a fewer months aboriginal successful December 2019, astatine the property of 71.

By past helium had spent fractional his £80million stock of the luck connected cars, spot and a controlling involvement successful his favourite shot club, Partick Thistle.

The erstwhile TV cameraman besides donated millions to the Scottish National Party and the pro-independence Yes run up of the 2014 referendum.

He near down £212,000 worthy of furniture, jewellery and artworks, a £10,000 Bentley Arnage, a Jaguar F-Pace SUV, a Mercedes Benz E Class Estate, a Mercedes Benz V Class radical carrier, and a cookware of petty currency containing £263.90.

After the split, Chris, antecedently a psychiatric nurse, kept their Frognal House mansion, which they bought for £3.5million aft a 10-minute viewing.

She sold the spot successful Troon, Ayrshire, for £2.3million successful 2019.

They had besides acceptable up the Weir Charitable Trust, which funded projects crossed Scotland.

4. Anonymous – £170,221,000

This EuroMillions jackpot had to spell determination erstwhile it reached the stag of a Must Be Won draw.

It had already sat astatine the €190million headdress for the maximum 5 draws by the clip 1 UK ticketholder bagged it.

They chose to enactment anonymous.

3. Anonymous – £171,815,297

An anonymous ticketholder claimed their EuroMillions jackpot wrong 48 hours of the numbers being drawn connected September 23, 2022.

It was the 3rd large triumph successful the UK that year.

2. Joe and Jess Thwaite – £184,262,899

A caller wardrobe and drawers for their chamber were the archetypal buys for Gloucestershire mates Joe and Jess Thwaite.

They had bought a EuroMillions Lucky Dip summons connected The National Lottery app, ‘because it’s easier’, connected the precise time of the May 10, 2022, draw.

A communications income engineer, and the concern manager of a hairdressing salon, they were the archetypal of 3 large winners that year.

Joe saw they’d won erstwhile helium woke aboriginal the adjacent morning. He said: ‘I saw however overmuch and I didn’t cognize what to do.

‘I couldn’t spell backmost to sleep, I didn’t privation to aftermath Jess up truthful I conscionable laid determination for what seemed similar forever.

‘I spent immoderate clip searching for spot with nary fund limit, which was a novelty!’

When the alarm yet rang, Joe turned to Jess and said: ‘I’ve got a secret, I’ve got thing to archer you.’

1. Anonymous – £195,707,000

Just 2 months aft Joe and Jess Thwaite acceptable the grounds for all-time biggest jackpot, their crown was taken by a victor who chose to support their individuality private.

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