A lucky lotto player has scooped the eye-watering £210million jackpot in Tuesday night’s EuroMillions draw.
The ticket holder from France is now richer than Adele who has a reported net worth of £180million – and is twice as wealthy as Sir Andy Murray on £100million.
A UK player also got close – with five main numbers and one lucky star – and will bring home £182,967.60.
The jackpot had rolled over in recent draws, meaning it had reached its cap with a whopping 250million Euros up for grabs on Tuesday night.
The winning numbers were revealed as 24, 31, 34, 41 and 43, while the lucky numbers were 06 and 08.
The UK Millionaire Maker Selection winner was XMPX55830.
Tuesday night’s win comes after an Irish family syndicate also claimed a EuroMillions jackpot worth £216million on June 17.
The jackpot had reached the maximum amount on June 6 after rolling over several times.
This historic Irish win surpassed the previous EuroMillions record of £195million, which was won by a UK ticket-holder in July 2022.
The winning ticket was sold in a retailer in Munster, County Cork, the Irish National Lottery said.
The winning numbers from the draw were 13, 22, 23, 44, 49 and Lucky Stars 3 and 5.
Under Irish National Lottery rules, jackpot winners can choose to remain anonymous.
‘We are absolutely thrilled to have heard from our EuroMillions winner,’ Irish National Lottery spokesperson Emma Monaghan said.
‘At this point, our priority is to give them the necessary time and space to make arrangements and let this life-changing news sink in.’
Andy Carter, senior winners’ advisor at Allwyn, said: ‘Tuesday’s jackpot has the ability to transform not just the winner’s life, but the life of the friends and family around them.
‘So, make sure you get a ticket to be in with a chance of banking Britain’s biggest ever win.’
That was even more than the prize landed by Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, when they scooped a then-peak £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the National Lottery draw on May 10 that same year.
Mr Thwaite, a communications sales engineer, told how his wife who ran a hairdressing salon was asleep when he noticed the winning numbers on the National Lottery app – and he opted not to wake her while browsing for potential new homes.
And last December it was revealed a British participant had become the country’s third biggest National Lottery winner of all time after hitting a jackpot worth £177million.
The single ticket-holder, who chose to stay anonymous, came forward to claim the EuroMillions jackpot after the draw on Tuesday November 26.
Among the big winners who did agree to go public with their good fortune were Colin and Chris Weir, from Ayrshire, who were handed £161million in 2011.
Colin died aged 71 eight years later after getting through just half of his jackpot, with most of it having been shared between family, friends, and charities.
The EuroMillions draw is a biweekly lottery in which members of the public in the UK and eight other European countries participate – with draws held on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
The UK’s main National Lottery draws, first held in 1994, take place on Wednesday and Saturdays each week.
