EuroMillions results LIVE — UK couple unveiled as winners of huge £61m jackpot

Couple's frantic rush after winning jackpot

Richard said poor signal meant he and his wife, Debbie, couldn't confirm the news of their win with the National Lottery and he turned to his family for help.

"I tried calling The National Lottery’s number but my mobile phone signal was poor and the call just kept dropping. So I WhatsApped the family chat group asking for one of our daughters to call us urgently. My youngest came back quickly and we asked her to log into our National Lottery account from the UK and double-check.

"She put in my details and then just kept repeating ’oh my god, oh my god, oh my god!!’ It must be real, this was the official National Lottery website we were all looking at.”

When Richard and Debbie finally got through to the National Lottery, the employee told them: "So, I need to get this right…I can confirm you are the winners of the £61,708,321 EuroMillions jackpot prize.

"By this time me and Debs are going mental, jumping up and down in our car seats, punching the air, thumping the dashboard, the car must have been rocking," said Richard.

‘We thought we’d only won £2.60’

Richard reveled they originally thought they had won £2.60, but then received another email telling the pair to check their account.

“I thought it was odd and there must be a glitch in the system to get a duplicate email but I logged in again to my National Lottery account to check. We were totally stunned, it said we had won over £61M," said the winner.

Richard continued: “We just couldn’t make sense of it. My first thought was it must be a scam or there was some mix up."