One lucky lottery winner has become filthy rich overnight in one of the EuroMillions‘ biggest-ever draws.
They scooped an eye-watering £177m in Tuesday’s game making them the third biggest National Lottery winner of all time. It instantly makes them one of the 1,000 weathiest people in the country and richer the likes of pop stars Adele and Harry Styles, worth £150m and £120m respectively.
With that amount of money they could certainly pay off a few bills – and bag themselves a couple of luxury purchases too such as their own private golf course. A private jet could cost them anywhere from £1.59million to over £80million, so the Euromillions winner could end up with an impressive fleet.
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They could also choose to be a frequent flyer… to space.
A ticket for a 90-minute trip to space with Virgin Galactic will set you back £356,000 – you’d probably know Richard Branson personally by the time you completed your 365 trips.
While the winner might not be able to buy an entire Premier League club for £177 million, they could potentially acquire a minority stake in a top-tier team. Many clubs in the English Premier League are valued in the billions, but smaller stakes are often available for sale.
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For example, the Glazers recently sold a minority stake in Manchester United for around £1.5 billion, so £177 million could give them a small ownership percentage.
Depending on if they are a fan, smaller clubs such as Bradford City, or even some teams in League One or League Two (like Portsmouth or Ipswich Town), might be on the market for around £20 million to £50 million.
The lucky player is the 19th UK winner of a prize worth over £100m and the fourth EuroMillions UK jackpot winner of 2024 so far.
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With the best interest rate on the high street in the UK currently at 5.23%, they could earn an impressive £9.26 million annually just by placing their money into a high-interest savings account, research from Stocklytics has revealed.
To put this into perspective, this daily interest eclipses the average UK graduate’s annual £21k salary.
Because of this, the winner will be automatically entitled to support from a financial panel, financial and legal advisors and access to private banking to learn know how to manage their new-found wealth.
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The biggest UK EuroMillions jackpot win of all time was an anonymous ticket-holder who banked £195,707,000 in July 2022.
Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester hold second place on the list, and are the biggest-ever publicity winners with a £184,262,899.10 jackpot win in the EuroMillions draw in May 2022.
UK EuroMillions jackpot wins in 2024 include an anonymous ticket-holder who scooped a £24m jackpot prize in the draw in July, just three weeks after another anonymous UK player won a £33m jackpot.
Richard and Debbie Nuttall from Lancashire shared the £123m jackpot prize in the draw in January with a winner in Spain, meaning the couple scooped a whopping £61m.
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