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The winner of Britain's second biggest Lottery tried to tell his wife that they had scooped £148.6 million but she told him to be quiet as she was trying to get their children to sleep
Music shop owner Adrian Bayford, 41, said he saw the news on TV that one person had won EuroMillions but his wife confessed that she hadn't had time to get a ticket.
"As a joke, I also said neither had I, when in fact I had five lines upstairs waiting to be checked. Gradually, the numbers seemed to match up with those on my ticket and I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.
"I rushed back and turned on the main light, at which point Gillian went ballistic. The kids really were awake by now. I was trying to tell her that we had won the lottery and she was telling me to keep the noise down."
The lucky couple, from Haverhill, Suffolk, who have two children, Aimee, six, and Cameron, four, scooped the 14-rollover jackpot in Friday's EuroMillions draw with the winning numbers 50, 21, 17, 48 and 11, and the Lucky Star numbers 09 and 10. The prize is just behind the £161 million landed by Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, in July last year.
Mr Bayford, who co-owns a music...