‘We thought we’d only won £2.60,’ say couple unveiled as winners of £61m EuroMillions jackpot

A LUCKY couple have been announced as the UK’s latest multi-million pound National Lottery winners – after scooping £61,708,231 in the EuroMillions jackpot

Richard and Debbie Nuttall, both 54, from Colne, Lancashire, took home the life-changing share in the draw on Tuesday, 30 January 2024.

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The couple were enjoying a week-long holiday in Fuerteventura, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, when they discovered the big win.

Richard reveled they originally thought they had won £2.60, but then received another email telling the pair to check their account.

“I thought it was odd and there must be a glitch in the system to get a duplicate email but I logged in again to my National Lottery account to check. We were totally stunned, it said we had won over £61M,” said the winner.

Richard continued: “We just couldn’t make sense of it. My first thought was it must be a scam or there was some mix up.”

He said poor phone signal meant the couple couldn’t confirm the news with the National Lottery and he turned to his family for help.

“My youngest came back quickly and we asked her to log into our National Lottery account from the UK and double-check,” explained Richard.

“She put in my details and then just kept repeating ’oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!!’ It must be real, this was the official National Lottery website we were all looking at.”

When Richard and Debbie finally got through to the National Lottery, the employee told them: “So, I need to get this right…I can confirm you are the winners of the £61,708,321 EuroMillions jackpot prize.”

The eye-watering win makes this couple richer than Stormzy and Dua Lipa.

Stormzy, one of the biggest names in the UK music scene, has a reported £26million in the bank.

Meanwhile, Dua Lipa has seen her wealth more than double in the past three years to take her fortune to an estimated £60million.

Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ Advisor at The National Lottery, said: “This is absolutely incredible news and we’re delighted that we’ve received a claim.

“This is the first UK EuroMillions jackpot win of 2024, following on from an incredible 2023 which saw six UK EuroMillions jackpots won, including a £111.7million win by an anonymous single ticket-holder in June.

“Our focus is now on supporting this latest lucky ticket-holder through the process and helping them start to enjoy their truly life-changing win.”

The first EuroMillions draw took place on February 7, 2004, by three organisations: France’s Française des Jeux, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado in Spain and the Camelot in the UK.

A previous UK winner whose whole life was altered with their jackpot, was a player who wanted to remain anonymous on October 8, 2019.

They walked off with a whopping £170,221,000.

HOW TO PLAY

Contestants need five main number plus two Lucky Stars to win the EuroMillions jackpot.

However, large sums are still up for grabs if you match five main numbers and one Lucky Star.

Even with no Lucky Stars, if you still draw five main numbers you can win a significant amount.

The guaranteed price in the UK Millionaire Maker, which you receive automatic entry into if you buy a EuroMillions ticket, is £1 million.

To play pick five numbers from 1 – 50 and two Lucky Stars from 1-12, or you can opt for randomly selected numbers.

You can choose to play on a Tuesday or a Friday, or both and the number of weeks you want to play.

For £2.50 you can play up to seven lines of numbers and buy up to 10 pay slips at a time.

This post first appeared on thesun.co.uk