British ticketholder scoops £26 MILLION EuroMillions jackpot

The lucky stars were: 02, 06.

Senior winners' adviser at Allwyn Andy Carter said: "What a fantastic night for EuroMillions players, as a single UK ticketholder has scooped tonight's £26million jackpot."

He added: "Players are now urged to check their tickets and to give us a call if they think they are tonight's lucky winner."

The estimated jackpot had been £25million.

One UK millionaire has been created in the Millionaire Maker Selection with the code VDVZ96056.

Friday night's National Lottery Thunderball winning numbers were: 07, 16, 26, 31, 37.

The Thunderball was 01.

The UK has the highest number of EuroMillions jackpot winners, with 47.

This equates to 26.7 per cent of total wins, compared to France's 21 per cent and Spain's 19.3 per cent.

The highest jackpot ever won was snatched on August 19th of this year when a lucky winner in France took home £216,150,000.

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Large jackpots have seemingly become more common, with the five biggest wins all coming within the last four months.

In August, footage went viral of the moment a cancer survivor told his son he had won the lottery.

Paul Harvey, from Norfolk, won £1million through the EuroMillions Millionaire maker on July 4.

The 51-year-old had been raising two teenagers as a single parent while also battling bowel cancer over the past two years.

Watch the heartwarming moment cancer surviving father tells son he is a millionaire

Mr Harvey originally dismissed an email from the National Lottery urging him to check his account, thinking it was fraudulent.

Upon discovering his win, he shared the news with his children.

Describing how he had "a massive lump in my throat", he said: "I wanted to tell the kids in person."

At the time of winning the lifechanging sum, Mr Harvey and his family lived in a property with too few bedrooms, leaving the father to sleep in the living room..

He revealed he planned to buy a home with his new money so that he could finally have his own bedroom.