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Lottery winner dumps her fraudster husband after he squandered millions of her £148m fortune on cars, holidays, watches and five-star football trips – while pals say he saw her as nothing more than “an ATM.”

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Colin and Chris Weir became Europe's biggest lottery winners when they won more than £161 million in 2011.

Here are the ten previous UK EuroMillions draw winners so far

1. In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they won more than £161 million.

The couple, who have been married for 30 years, said they were “not afraid” of wealth because they were going to have “a lot of fun” with the money.

The couple, a retired television cameraman and a retired psychiatric nurse, from Largs, Ayrshire, said they would buy their children Carly, a photography student, and Jamie, a call center worker, their own houses and cars. .

The family made a £1 million donation to the SNP shortly after winning.

Colin and Chris Weir became Europe's biggest lottery winners when they won more than £161 million in 2011.

Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they won more than £161 million in 2011.

2. Suffolk’s Adrian and Gillian Bayford took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

The marriage ended just 15 months into their jackpot-winning new life, citing money stress as the reason they needed to separate.

At the time, a spokesman for Mrs Bayford said: “Gillian Bayford confirms that her marriage to Adrian has irretrievably broken down and they have separated.”

It came after Mrs Bayford was forced to deny she had an affair with the couple’s gardener, Chris Tovey.

Suffolk's Adrian and Gillian Bayford took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

Suffolk's Adrian and Gillian Bayford took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012.

3. An anonymous ticket holder took home £123m in July

4. Patrick and Frances Connolly, from County Armagh, scooped the entire £115 million EuroMillions jackpot on New Year’s Day 2019.

5. An anonymous ticket holder claimed just over £113 million in October 2010 and decided not to make it public.

6. Neil Trotter, from south London, earned almost £108 million, going from former car mechanic to multi-millionaire in March 2014.

Croydon residents described how he and his partner Nicky Ottaway moved “almost overnight” after winning the EuroMillions jackpot last March.

Trotter admitted at the time that he was like his namesake, Del Boy Trotter of Only Fools And Horses.

Neil Trotter, with his partner Nicky Ottaway, earned almost £108 million, going from former car mechanic to multi-millionaire in March 2014.

Neil Trotter, with his partner Nicky Ottaway, earned almost £108 million, going from former car mechanic to multi-millionaire in March 2014.

Neil Trotter, with his partner Nicky Ottaway, earned almost £108 million, going from former car mechanic to multi-millionaire in March 2014.

7. Steve Thomson and his wife Lenka, from West Sussex, became the UK’s biggest EuroMillions winners when they claimed a prize worth £105 million in November 2019.

8. A Cambridgeshire couple, Dave and Angela Dawes, won more than £101 million on their third entry into the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.

Dawes said he “didn’t sleep a wink” the night of the win as it was too late to call Camelot after the pair checked their numbers.

Last year the couple were taken to court by their son, an Afghanistan veteran, Michael Dawes, 32, who said he was “ungenerous in spirit”.

But a judge ruled that the millionaire father need not continue bailing out his son, who spent £1.6 million in two years, and came back for more, without following his stepmother’s advice to stop eating at the Ritz and go to McDonald’s . .

Dave and Angela Dawes won more than £101 million on their third participation in the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.

Dave and Angela Dawes won more than £101 million on their third participation in the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.

Dave and Angela Dawes won more than £101 million on their third participation in the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.

9. A UK winner received a £93 million payout in June 2015, but chose to remain anonymous.

10. The Davies family from Wales won £61 million in EuroMillions in 2016.

Stephanie Davies, 23, is said to have bought the ticket “reluctantly” at the time when her mother, Sonia, called her from Florida and begged her to go out and buy one.

Keith Reynolds, Sonia Davies, Stephanie, Courtney Davies and Steve Powell took home jackpot money and said they were the “luckiest people” on the planet to have won.

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