EuroMillions winners LIVE – Joe Thwaite goes public with wife Jess after winning huge £184 million biggest ever win

A MARRIED couple have won Britain's biggest ever EuroMillions lottery jackpot of £184 million.

Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped the jaw-dropping £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket on the EuroMillions draw on Tuesday May 10.

Joe, 49, a communications sales engineer, and Jess, 44, who runs a hairdressing salon with her sister, have been married for 11 years and have two primary-school age children.

Mrs Thwaite said: "The win gives us time to dream, which we haven't had before. We've had one week to think about this and we now have time to share lots of experiences and go on adventures with our family and friends."

The record was previously held by an anonymous ticket-holder who banked £170 million in October 2019.

The new Lottery record-breakers mark the second EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year.

A stonking £109 million jackpot from the draw on February 4 was claimed a few days later.

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    Thwaites assumed they had won just another Lucky Dip prize

    Joe Thwaite said that when he received an email telling him he won a prize he thought it was a lucky dip.

    "Then I looked at the amount and I put the phone down. And I picked the phone up again, and I looked at the amount again.

    "I first thought it was in thousands," he said, adding that he thought it was "life-changing".

    But then he "started counting the digits", adding: "Amazing, but also surreal."

    He said they have been trying to move house for quite a while and he went on Right Move.

    "You go on Right Move and you set your limits on what you can afford, and in the past everything we've kind of wanted is far beyond what we can afford, and in the past everything we've kind of wanted is far beyond what we can afford so I thought I don't need to filter, I can actually just look at anything," he said.

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    Britain's previous Lottery jackpot winners

    The previous highest winners stayed anonymous when they bagged £170million in October 2019.

     Colin and Chris Weir were next when they became Europe's second biggest lottery winners in July 2011.

    Adrian and Gillian Bayford won £148million in 2012 but they spit up just 15 months later.

    Frances and Patrick Connolly, of County Armagh, won £114.9million on the New Year's Day EuroMillions jackpot in 2019.

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    'My luck is generally terrible' says EuroMillions prize winner Joe Thwaite

    Joe Thwaite said he was working on Tuesday and by 4pm he thought he "better buy a ticket" because he was aware of the jackpot.

    He said he regularly buys tickets, adding: "I normally buy them when it's a good amount, so when there's a lot of money I'll put it on. I use the app, and have a quick check a couple of times a week and I'll put it on.

    "But generally my luck is pretty terrible, to be honest with you."

    His wife Jess said: "He tries to convince me to buy them thinking I'll have more luck, but actually it's him."

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    Winners of biggest ever UK EuroMIllions prize revealed

    A married couple have been revealed as the winners of Britain's biggest EuroMillions lottery jackpot of £184 million.

    Joe and Jess Thwaite, from Gloucester, scooped a record-breaking £184,262,899 with a Lucky Dip ticket on the draw on Tuesday May 10.

    Joe, 49, a communications sales engineer, and Jess, 44, who runs a hairdressing salon with her sister, have been married for 11 years and have two primary-school aged children.

    Mrs Thwaite said: "The win gives us time to dream, which we haven't had before. We've had one week to think about this and we now have time to share lots of experiences and go on adventures with our family and friends."

    The record was previously held by an anonymous ticket-holder who banked £170 million in October 2019.

    The new record-breakers mark the second EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year, with the £109 million jackpot from the draw on February 4 claimed a few days later.

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