EuroMillions: UK-based ticket holder wins £55m jackpot

A fortunate UK-based EuroMillions summons holder bagged Tuesday's £55m jackpot, National Lottery has confirmed.

It the victor is simply a azygous ticket-holder they are acceptable to go wealthier than England striker Harry Kane.

It marks the 2nd UK-based victor this month, aft different ticket-holder took location £117.1m connected 2 June.

Kane reportedly earns £200,000 per week, netting a crisp £10.4m per year. He is worthy astir £51m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

He adds to his wealthiness with a lucrative Nike sponsorship woody and could beryllium successful enactment for a rise this summer, with reports that helium is angling for a determination distant from his club.

However, his wealthiness is inactive dwarfed by that of immoderate of his chap pros.

Former Wales and Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale leads the enactment of nonrecreational footballers with a idiosyncratic wealthiness of £70m, portion England and Chelsea prima Raheem Sterling tin boast a comfy luck of £61m.

Leading the battalion is erstwhile Real Madrid prima David Beckham, who shares a warfare thorax of immoderate £425m with his woman Victoria, according to the affluent list.

Andy Carter, elder winners' advisor astatine the National Lottery, said the triumph marked a fantastic nighttime for British players, calling the jackpot a "life-changing" magnitude of money.

And helium urged players "to cheque their tickets and to springiness america a telephone if they deliberation they are tonight's fortunate winner".

The winning numbers were 11, 17, 28, 32 and 35, with Lucky Stars 05, 06.

EuroMillions winners are nether nary work to place themselves to the wide public. But erstwhile a summons has been validated and paid, the victor tin determine if they privation to stock the news.

Six EuroMillions jackpots were won successful the UK successful 2022, with prizes totalling much than £820m.

The EuroMillions crippled is played successful 9 countries - Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.