{"id":600000,"date":"2025-11-28T21:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600000\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:46:12","slug":"euromillions-results-157-million-jackpot-won-as-lucky-player-bags-winning-numbers-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600000\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroMillions results: \u00a3157 million jackpot won as lucky player bags winning numbers | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EuroMillions jackpot of \u00a3157 million has been won by a lucky player in France<\/a>. The lucky winner correctly guessed the five winning numbers and the two lucky stars, landing themselves the eyewatering sum of money.<\/p>\n

There have been hundreds of EuroMillions<\/a> jackpot winners crowned since the first draw in February 2004, with all nine participating countries enjoying success. The largest prize of the lot has been \u00a3218 million, which has been won three times this year. Winners came from France<\/a>, Ireland<\/a> and Austria<\/a>, but the top prize has alluded the UK until this point.<\/p>\n

The largest UK win came in 2022, when an anonymous player won a life-changing \u00a3195,707,000.<\/p>\n

The EuroMillions<\/a> jackpot reached its limit (at the time) of 230 million Euros ahead of the draw on Friday 8th July, where it remained until Tuesday 19th July when one lucky ticket sold in the UK scooped the entire prize.<\/p>\n

The winner claimed their money quickly, but no more information was released as they decided not to go public.<\/p>\n

If the jackpot had not been won in this draw, a Must Be Won draw would have taken place in the subsequent draw.<\/p>\n

This win came just months after Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester won \u00a3184,262,899, giving them a greater net worth similar to that of music heartthrob Harry Styles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This jackpot set a new record for the biggest-ever win in the UK at the time, after soaring to \u20ac215 million (\u00a3184 million) in the space of just seven and a half weeks in the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n

A \u20ac130 million Superdraw had been scheduled for late April, but it was effectively postponed as the top prize was already worth more. One more rollover would have pushed the jackpot to its \u20ac230 million cap, but a UK ticket holder matched all the numbers on 10th May.<\/p>\n

The jackpot was claimed by Joe and Jess Thwaite of Gloucester. They revealed that they still went to work on the day they found out, and decided to go public because they did not want to \u2018burden\u2019 others with having to keep their secret.<\/p>\n

Tonight\u2019s National Lottery EuroMillions winning numbers are: 05, 29, 33, 39, 42.<\/p>\n

The lucky stars are: 03, 09.<\/p>\n

Tonight\u2019s estimated jackpot is \u00a3157 million.<\/p>\n

Millionaire Maker Selection \u2013 XXGW96165.<\/p>\n

Tonight\u2019s National Lottery Thunderball winning numbers are: 06, 08, 11, 29, 32.<\/p>\n

The Thunderball is 03.<\/p>\n

The next Euromillions draw will take place\u00a0on Tuesday, December 2nd\u00a0\u00a0with a reduced jackpot of \u00a314.9 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EuroMillions jackpot of \u00a3157 million has been won by a lucky player in France. The lucky winner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,14981,14982,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-600000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-euromillions","10":"tag-national-lottery","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115629521976228717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}