EUROMILLIONS winner Gillian Bayford’s love life has been a tragic rollercoaster since she scooped £148million over a decade ago.
The mum this week kicked her second husband out of her mansion after he squandered millions of pounds.
Minted Gillian Bayford has booted out husband Brian Deans, with sources saying he was only interested in her money
PA:Press AssociationGillian and first husband Adrian Bayford won their mega fortune in August 2012[/caption]
The SunGillian and Brian became parents to a girl in the 2020 Covid lockdown[/caption]
Gillian scooped the whopping jackpot with her first husband Adrian in 2012 – but the whirlwind around the big win cost the couple their marriage, which fell apart within two years.
Despite their divorce, Gillian and Adrian split their winnings equally and Gillian moved from their Suffolk home back to Scotland.
She then started her own property company and enjoys a glam lifestyle.
But her best pal claimed she was forced out of the business they started together after the pair had a row over dogs.
She then married to convicted fraudster Brian Deans after a lavish ceremony in St Andrews, Fife.
The pair became parents in 2020 during a Covid lockdown.
But this week The Sun exclusively revealed how she has kicked out her hubby after he squandered millions from her.
A source said: “He was throwing money about left, right and centre. They could have ended up skint.”
His sprees left Gillian fearful nothing would be left of her share of the EuroMillions jackpot.
An insider told The Sun: “Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more.
“She kept throwing money at him to try to make the marriage work. She’d think nothing of giving £20,000 if he asked for it.
“But no amount was ever enough and he wanted more and more. She probably got out in the nick of time.”
It’s understood she met Brian — jailed for swindling £13,500 from a Tesco store — when he was living in a rundown flat in Dundee.
He quickly became used to having piles of money.
But they split recently with cracks showing in the marriage for some time, say sources.
ADRIAN’S LOVE LIFE
Meanwhile, Adrian was also unlucky in love following the split.
Adrian finally sold his mansion – where he was dumped four times – in 2021, making a loss.
However, the couple’s misery didn’t end their, as their son was left fighting for his life after a horror quad bike accident.
The Sun on Sunday revealed in September 2021 that 13-year-old Cameron had been hit by a car driven by his sister Amy, 15, in the ground of his dad’s lavish mansion while riding the machine.
A friend of Adrian’s said at the time: “Adrian just feels consumed with guilt.
Curse of lotto winners
Despite hitting the jackpot, countless UK lotto winners have suffered astonishing tragedies and lost their fortunes.
Callie Rogers
Callie became Britain’s youngest lottery winner when she won £1.9million in 2003.
The 16-year-old from Cumbria gave up her £3.60-an-hour checkout job and went on a spending spree, purchasing a £180,000 bungalow and a £76,000 home for her mum.
But she ultimately blew thousands on wild parties, three boob jobs and drugs, plus around £300,000 on designer clothes.
Eighteen years after her win, Callie was found to be claiming Universal Credit after blowing her fortune.
Michael Carrol
The self-styled ‘King of Chavs’ was 19 when he scooped £9,736,131 on the National Lottery in November 2002.
The part-time binman, who was wearing an electronic tag when he bought his winning ticket, immediately bought a £340,000 six-bedroom home in Norfolk.
He spent a further £400,000 on lavish home upgrades and dropped £49,000 on a BMW to park in his drive. He most notably invested £1million in Rangers FC shares.
Michael’s wife, Sandra, left him over his incessant party boy lifestyle and took £1.4million from the divorce settlement. By 2010, he had declared bankruptcy.
Roger Griffiths
Griffiths and his wife Lara netted £1.8million on the National Lottery in 2005.
Quitting their day jobs, the couple enjoyed expensive holidays and luxury motors and also splashed £800,000 on a barn conversion in Wetherby, West Yorks.
After wannabe rock star Roger spent £25,000 making a music record, the couple divested into safer assets but the global financial crisis hit and rendered them worthless.
In 2010, their uninsured home tragically went up in flames – and all their funds dried up three years later.
Lee Ryan
Ex-jailbird Ryan scooped the £6.5million jackpot just 17 weeks after the lottery was launched in 1994.
It later emerged he was accused of handling stolen cars and was imprisoned for 18 months after his huge payout.
Once released he spent a decade enjoying his riches, even buying a helicopter and a £2million mansion but ultimately ended up penniless.
Lee was dealt his final blow when he took an ill-fated trip to Kyrgyzstan and invested the last of his winnings in property, which failed due to an economic crisis.
Gillian and Adrian Bayford
The loving couple’s lives changed overnight in 2012 when they scooped a staggering £148million.
But just 15 months after the win, their eight-year marriage ended with both parties partly blaming stress from their mind-boggling win.
Adrian shacked up with ex-horse groomer Samantha Burbidge, who ended up bolting with his money, 30 horses, a horse box, and a car he gifted her.
Gillian was convicted of attacking her ex-lover Gavin Innes. She then moved on and started dating fraudster Brian Deans, who ended up in jail, and last made the headlines in 2021 for claiming nearly £40,000 in furlough cash.
Margaret Loughrey
Margaret scooped £27million in 2013 and became Northern Ireland’s biggest winner at the time.
However, the 48-year-old later admitted the huge fortune didn’t bring her any happiness.
She told local media: “Money has brought me nothing but grief. It has destroyed my life.”
Tragically, in September last year, Margaret, by now in her 50s, was found dead in her home.
Martyn and Kay Tott
The Totts got the shock of their lives when they realised they’d won £3million back in 2001 – six months after buying the ticket.
By the time they saw an appeal for the winner to come forward, they couldn’t find the ticket.
Computer records in their local Londis proved Kay really had purchased the ticket.
But a little-known rule stipulating that lost tickets must be reported within 30 days meant they would never receive the cash – eventually putting too much strain on their marriage and causing it to break down.
“He allowed his son and daughter to go out around the estate on those vehicles.
“His daughter is too young to drive on a public road, but as it is a private estate she did not need a licence. The kids were on his watch as they were with him while their mum was in Scotland.
“The quad bike was bought by Adrian so he could get around the estate. It was one of the ‘boy’s toys’ he bought after his big win.”
Thankfully, Cameron is understood to have made a recovery from the accident after being taken out of an induced coma.
Andrew Styczynski – The SunTheir marriage collapsed within a year of their big win[/caption]
Bav MediaTheir son was also left fighting for his life in a horror quad bike crash at his dad’s mansion[/caption]