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  "path": "/2026/04/22/two-uk-ticket-holders-have-won-a-share-of-a-126000000-euromillions-jackpot-28072306/",
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  "textContent": "The total, worth £126 million, was split between the pair and a third winner in France, National Lottery operator Allwayn said (Picture: Shutterstock/Ascannio)\n\nTwo Brits have won more than £41 million each in the EuroMillions jackpot.\n\nThe total, worth £126 million, was split between the pair and a third winner in France, National Lottery operator Allwayn said.\n\nAll three players had the same seven numbers and will take home exactly £41,844,862.30 each.\n\nAndy Carter, the senior winners’ advisor at Allwyn, said: ‘It’s been another great night for EuroMillions players as two lucky UK winners have won an incredible share of tonight’s £126 million jackpot prize.\n\n‘These lucky ticket-holders join the £181 million jackpot winner from 10 March – another big UK win.’\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nAnd they are not the only lucky winners. One UK ticketholder became a millionaire after having the code HVHT22088 for the Millionaire Maker Selection.\n\nTwo people have won more than £100,000 and four people won more than £12,000.\n\n## Which lottery prizes have not yet been unclaimed?\n\nThere are four prizes which still have not been claimed.\n\n**South Gloucestershire – £1 million**\n\nOne Lotto player from South Gloucestershire has won £1 million, and they only have eight more days to claim it.\n\nDrawn on November 1 last year from the Match 5 plus Bonus prize, the winning results were: 17, 18, 31, 36, 39, 5. Bonus Ball: 29.\n\n**Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole** – **£1 million**\n\nDrawn on November 4 last year, a player from the Bournemouth area has won £1 million and only has until May 3 to claim it.\n\nAs part of the EuroMillions they won the Millionaire Maker Results.\n\n**Powys – £112,000**\n\nA player in Powys has won £112,091.00 as part of the EuroMillions.\n\nFrom the Match 5 and 1 Star, the winning numbers are 7, 25, 30, 37, 4.\nLucky Stars: 5, 11.\n\nThe last day to claim in June 10.\n\n**Wigan – £124,000**\n\nA player from Wigan has won £124,067.00 from the Match 5 and 1 Star.\n\nThe winning numbers are 8, 27, 42, 44, 46, Lucky Stars: 1, 10.\n\nthe last day to claim is July 1.\n\n##  The UK’s 10 other biggest EuroMillions wins\n\nHere are the 10 biggest UK lottery wins to date – all from EuroMillions draws – and what some of the winners did with their fortunes.\n\n**– Anonymous, £195,707,000**\n\nA UK ticket-holder scooped a EuroMillions jackpot of £195 million on July 19, 2022.\n\n**– Joe and Jess Thwaite, £184,262,899.10**\n\nJoe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped a then record-breaking £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket for the draw on May 10, 2022.\n\nAt the time, Joe was a communications sales engineer, and Jess ran a hairdressing salon with her sister.\n\n**– Anonymous, £177,033,699.20**\n\nA UK ticket-holder became the third biggest National Lottery winner after receiving a £177 million jackpot.\n\nThe winner, who chose to remain anonymous, came forward to claim the EuroMillions jackpot after the draw on November 26, 2024.\n\nThey became immediately wealthier than popstar Dua Lipa, who is worth an estimated £104 million, and Michael Buble, worth around £63 million.\n\n**– Anonymous, £171,815,297.80**\n\nA UK ticket-holder scooped £171,815,297.80 in the September 23, 2022 draw – at the time the country’s third biggest National Lottery win.\n\n**– Anonymous, £170,221,000**\n\nThe fifth biggest winner of the National Lottery to date scooped £170 million in 2019 after matching all the numbers in a Must Be Won draw on October 8.\n\n**– Colin and Chris Weir, £161,653,000**\n\nColin and Chris Weir, from Largs, North Ayrshire, bagged their historic winnings on July 12, 2011, making them the biggest UK winners at the time.\n\nColin invested £2.5 million in his beloved Partick Thistle FC, which led to one of the stands at the stadium being named after him.\n\nHe later acquired a 55% shareholding in the club, which was passed into the hands of the local community upon his death in December 2019, aged 71.\n\nThe couple also set up the Weir Charitable Trust in 2013 and donated £1 million to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. They divorced in the year of Colin’s death.\n\n**– Adrian and Gillian Bayford, £148,656,000**\n\nAdrian and Gillian, from Haverhill, Suffolk, won 190 million euros in a EuroMillions draw on August 10, 2012, which came to just over £148 million.\n\nThe couple bought a Grade II-listed estate in Cambridgeshire, complete with cinema and billiards room, but it was sold in 2021, some years after the pair divorced.\n\n**– Anonymous, £123,458,008**\n\nThe eighth biggest National Lottery winner won a Superdraw rollover jackpot on June 11, 2019, and decided not to go public with their success.\n\n**– Anonymous, £122,550,350**\n\nAfter nine rollovers, one lucky ticket-holder bagged more than £122 million in April 2021.\n\n**Anonymous, £121,328,187**\n\nAnother of the UK’s top 10 lottery winners found their fortune through a Superdraw jackpot rollover, this time in April 2018.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Two UK ticket holders have won a share of a £126,000,000 EuroMillions jackpot"
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