A young UK couple have won the £45 million jackpot prize from Tuesday’s EuroMillions lottery draw, just months before their wedding day.
The 22-year-olds won a staggering total of £45,160,170.50 after matching the five winning numbers and two Lucky Stars in the EuroMillions draw on Tuesday, The Telegraph reported.
The young couple, Cassey Carrington and Matt Topham, are the latest EuroMillions lottery multi-millionaires in the UK after Gareth and Catherine Bull, who won nearly £41m in the EuroMillions draw on January 20.
The couple, who won the seventh-largest jackpot ever to be won in the UK, are due to be married this September and were revealed as the latest winners at a press conference on Thursday.
Miss Carrington said she set up her online lottery account only last Friday because she was feeling lucky.
“I did have a feeling I was going to win,” she said.
“The store where I work had won an incentive for delivering excellent sales. We had been presented with £10,000 which was shared between staff.
“After that I just felt like it was my lucky day and decided to get a EuroMillions ticket.
“I got home and set up an account online. The minimum you could put into the account was £5, so I did that and bought one EuroMillions ticket for Friday.”
Miss Carrington said she had only played the lottery about half a dozen times in her life and put the win down to it being “my lucky day”.
Mr Topham currently works as a painter and Miss Carrington works as a supervisor at UK supermarket chain Iceland.
Mr Topham said: “We were sat in bed when Cassey decided to check her ticket.”
The line she originally bought was not a winner so she decided on Saturday to use the remaining £3 to get a single Lotto line for Saturday and the line for Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw, which turned out to be the winner.
Miss Carrington told the press conference “it was a bit of a shocker” when they realised they had matched the numbers and had to ring a friend and ask them to read out the numbers for them so they could double-check and make sure it was not a joke.
Mr Topham said: “He was reading them and we were going ‘got that, got that, yep, got that’.
“He then panicked and asked if we had the Lucky Stars as well – and we did.”
The couple could not confirm with Camelot if they had won that night so, unable to sleep, decided to watch a film and rang in at 8am the next morning to claim their prize.
The biggest EuroMillions prize was a £161 million jackpot won by Colin and Chris Weir from Scotland last year.
Check out this short news clip on the lucky winners:
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