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£45m lottery winners are instantly elevated to ranks of UK’s rich list
Monday, 9 November 2009
Two ticketholders have been catapulted straight into the list of the nation's richest people after coming forward to claim their half of a staggering £91 million Euromillions jackpot.
The winners will receive more than £45.5m each when their tickets have been fully validated, Camelot said, which could take place as early as today. Their identities have yet to be revealed.
Wealth of that magnitude would put them in the same league as DJ Chris Evans, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and film star Sir Michael Caine, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
Racing drivers David Coulthard and Jenson Button, supermodel Kate Moss, footballer Michael Owen and pop stars Pete Townshend and Sir Cliff Richard are also each worth between £40m and £45m, the list says.
It would be the first time that Lottery winners have made it onto the run down of the wealthiest people.
The winning numbers were 11, 19, 34, 43 and 45. The Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.
The three largest National Lottery prizes won in the UK so far are all from the Euromillions game.
They went to Angela Kelly, who won £35,425,411.80; a no publicity winner the same month who won £26,533,767.50; and Brian Caswell of Bolton, who won £24,951,269.40, in June this year. They are followed by two winning tickets in the domestic game — £22,590,829, which was shared by Paul Maddison and Mark Gardiner, of Hastings, in June 1995, and £20,100,472, won by Iris Jeffrey, of Belfast, in July 2004.
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