By Inderdeep Bains and Christopher Leake
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A lottery ticket-holder who has won £63.8 million has yet to come forward to claim their money.
The British ticket purchaser was one of two winners to share Friday night’s £127.6 million EuroMillions jackpot. The other winning ticket was bought in Belgium.
The large jackpot was the result of a double rollover. The previous Friday, six ticket-holders had each won £266,505.80 after matching five main numbers and one lucky star, but nobody matched all seven numbers to win a jackpot.
EuroMillions lottery winners Chris Weir and her husband Colin Weir celebrate their jackpot
The exact amount is £63,837,543.60. The winner will be able to make sizeable purchases of luxury goods with the money.
They could buy a Legacy 500 private jet, costing £15 million, as favoured by Lord Sugar, plus a £10 million super-yacht to match the one owned by Topshop mogul Sir Philip Green, and still have more than enough to buy a League One football team for £30 million.
However, the gargantuan amount is by no means Britain’s biggest EuroMillions win.
In July last year, Colin and Chris Weir, of North Ayrshire, Scotland, won £161 million.
Other big winners include a ticket-holder who banked £113,019,926 in October 2010 but decided not to go public, and Dave Dawes and his wife Angela, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, whose haul was £101,203,600 last October.
Nine countries â€" the UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria â€" participate in EuroMillions, with sales from all of them going into the jackpot fund.
Big winners: Dave Dawes and Angela Dawes from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, won the UK's third biggest lottery prize more than £101million
Among the winners this year are a dozen bus drivers from Stagecoach bus depot in Corby, Northamptonshire who between them scooped £38million in March.
It was not yet known if the prize had been claimed and there was no indication where the winning ticket had been sold.
A National Lottery spokesman said: 'Lady Luck is clearly shining down on the UK once again with another big EuroMillions win this year â€" the sixth jackpot win this year.
'We're absolutely delighted that a UK ticket-holder has scooped a £63.8million share of this massive jackpot, alongside one ticket-holder in Belgium.
'We've got the champagne on ice and look forward to welcoming the ticket-holder into the National Lottery millionaires' club.'
If the winner is looking for a glass of champagne to celebrate their windfall, they could splash out on a limited edition 12-bottle case of Pernod-Ricard Perrier-Jouet, which sells for around £32,000.
Lottery winners Matt Topham and Cassey Carrington, 22, celebrate after scooping £45,169,170.50 on EuroMillions
The massive jackpot could buy the winner 450 pairs of the world's most expensive shoes â€" the £140,000 diamond-encrusted heels made by the House of Borgezie â€" or a Bugatti Veyron, the fastest road-legal car in the world for £1.4million.
And if that was not enough the new millionaire could spend their fortune on 20 special edition Sesto Elemento Lamborghinis at £1.9million each.
He or she could easily afford their very own private jet for around £15million, while a luxury yacht could cost them in the region of £13million.
And if the t icketholder wants to show devotion to their local football team by buying the club, a League One football team could go for as little as £30million.
The prize came about after a double-rollover. Last Friday, six ticket-holders won £266,505.80 each after matching five main numbers and one lucky star, but no one matched all seven to claim the £106million jackpot.
The exact amount won by the UK ticket-holder was £63,837,543.60. The winning numbers are 05, 11, 22, 34, 40, the Lucky Star numbers are 9 and 11. Nine countries play EuroMillions â€" the UK , France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, Portugal and Switzerland.
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Not me this time! Many congratulations to the winners and spend the money wisely!
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It's meeee - Sir Lancelot, Camelot, 09/6/2012 10:10 Congratulations, says I, holding out a begging bowl!! :-)
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I never understand why people go public with their win! I'd keep hush. Congrats to whomever it was though! Better than my £2.60 win! :P
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Clair Voyant, Ruislip Manor, Middx., ,,you say richard branson was going to put a a=cap on the the winning limit ,,well its a bit rich coming from him to say what is excessive ,,for any of you that think 2-3 million is a lot then maybe thats because you would still want to live in the same street as you live in now ,,i dont want to play if its only gonna buy me a new car ,,i want houses all over the world big boats servants ,,buts its never going to happen so i,m not playing anymore its too depressing for me ,,so goodbye for ever lottery and hello to my realistic life of destitution and sorrow and nothing to ever look forward to ,,uuuuhmmm poor me
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Hope they look better than the last bloaters!!!!!
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Clair Voyant, Ruislip Manor, I agree with you, but the Government do not want to spread happiness, as they want you forever in pursuit of it. Ripped back to its bare minimum the lottery is an optional tax, and I have long suspected that its so called 'winners' are members of the Freemason or Common Purpose. The computer linked to the lottery system are A.I. and are a type of Algorithmic trading. In 1994 there were 117 winning tickets, each person won about £100,000, that this has not happened again, in over decade, is a clear indication that the A.I. computers are rigged to crack combinations, and codes. A few years back Camelot were caught with duplicate tickets in the system that was watering winnings down. They pleaded innocent and got away with it. Some raise the argument that if 117 people were winning the jackpot every week less people would play, I highly doubt this, in fact I suspect it would encourage more people to play, however what it woul d do is make people happier.
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Good luck to who ever won it, As had it have been myself I would keep working and only gift friends by paying their council tax for this year so as not to spoil their lives.
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It's defo not me, I can still live in hope of that holiday of a life time and new wardrobe with house to go with it of course oh and before I forget the new car in the drive way, that's all ha ha ha
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I got all those numbers but didn't buy a ticket.
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To say I'm jealous is an understatement! Congrats!
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