EUROMILLIONS lottery ticket-buyers will be wishing for the best tonight, hoping to scoop a jackpot prize to make them more than five times as rich as chart-topping singer Lewis Capaldi.
A £47m prize is up for grabs for anyone matching five ball numbers and two Lucky Stars.
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The windfall would make the winner even richer than Scottish singer Capaldi, whose wealth has been estimated at £8.3m after releasing his debut album Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent in 2019.
He achieved his fifth UK chart-topping single last month with Wish You The Best.
The star, from Whitburn in West Lothian, has been open about his health struggles with vertigo and Tourette’s syndrome – and recently featured in the documentary Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now.
He said of the film made available last month on streaming service Netflix: “When I saw the first cut I thought it looked like a film where I die at the end.
“Luckily things turned around and, as far as I’m aware, I don’t die at the end of this.
“It’s pretty vulnerable. There’s a lot of things in the film that were beginning to be resolved that are now resolved.”
Capaldi splashed out on a £1.6m five-bedroom farmhouse on the outskirts of Glasgow in September 2020.
The following year he won two awards at the Brits – though his bad language posed a challenge for broadcasters hitting the mute button as he swore on-stage.
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He was also nominated at this year’s Brits in the Song Of The Year category, for Forget Me – though accurately predicted in advance Harry Styles would take the prize for As It Was.
Anyone matching five ball numbers and one Lucky Star tonight would be in line for £130,554.30, while matching five numbers without any Lucky Stars could scoop you £13,561.20.
The top jackpot prize of £47m is 1,424 times the average UK salary for full-time employees of £33,000.
There were no top jackpot winners following the most recent EuroMillions draw on Tuesday, when the potential biggest prize was £35,570,682.
Yet a British ticket-holder did win a whopping £46.2m share of the EuroMillions jackpot a fortnight ago.
A ticket from France and a ticket from Switzerland also matched the winning numbers to each take a third of May 2’s £138m prize .
