Two British ticketholders share £90m jackpot
They scooped £45,570,835.50 each — the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK
London: Two British ticketholders shared a massive £90-million (Dh541 million) jackpot in Friday night's Euromillions draw, the Camelot lottery company said.
They scooped £45,570,835.50 each — the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK.
A National Lottery spokeswoman said: "This is fantastic news. These two ticketholders have just banked the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the country."
The spokeswoman added: "If either of the tickets belong to a single winner they will soar into the top spot on The National Lottery Rich List, trumping Glasgow postal worker Angela Kelly's £35.4-million win in August 2007."
The winning numbers were 19, 43, 45, 34 and 11. The Lucky Star numbers were 5 and 9.
Angela Kelly, a single mother, who scooped the largest British win to date in 2007, won at odds of 76 million to one.
