EuroMillions · United Kingdom · 2 November 2018
Clark bought EuroMillions tickets regularly but rarely checked them, keeping a bundle tucked into the sun visor of his Peugeot Expert work van. The winning ticket sat there for six weeks until his partner and her niece persuaded him to check.
Advertised prize
£76,369,807
Ticket
Not documented
Outcome
Stayed private
Took the money, kept their life, said little since.
Andrew Clark, a 51-year-old self-employed builder from Boston, Lincolnshire, won £76,369,806.80 in the EuroMillions draw of Friday 2 November 2018 — and did not find out for six weeks. He kept his lottery tickets in a bundle tucked into the sun visor of his Peugeot Expert van and rarely checked them. News reports of an unclaimed Lincolnshire jackpot prompted his partner Trisha Fairhurst, also 51, and her niece Louise — whose house extension he was building — to badger him into checking. One evening he finally retrieved the bundle and worked through it methodically, oldest ticket first, starting with his Lotto tickets before moving on to EuroMillions. When he rang the National Lottery claim line he opened with: "Hello mate, I think I've won a few quid, so I phoned." Told the total, he replied: "Just a little bit then." His win was announced publicly on 21 December 2018, making him the twelfth-biggest UK lottery winner at that point. He said he would take early retirement, and had already put deposits on a four-bedroom house and an £80,000 Mercedes and bought Fairhurst a Nissan Qashqai.
As announced in December 2018, Clark took early retirement and he and Trisha Fairhurst put deposits on a new four-bedroom house and two cars. He has kept a low profile since; the only later documented coverage is the recirculation of his recorded claim-line phone call, which went viral again in May 2023.
One detail worth keeping
The year he won £76m, Clark raised the money he put in his grandchildren's Christmas cards from £30-£40 to £200.
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Every figure and quotation above comes from these.
Last verified: 2026-09-13