Inside £148m EuroMillions winner Adrian Bayford’s love life from split with wife Gillian to Tesco ‘date’ with new beau
A LUCKY man who won £148m in the EuroMillions lottery has been spotted with a new beau after years of being unlucky in love.
Ex-postie Adrian Bayford, 53, who scooped the jackpot in 2012, split from his wife Gillian the following year because of the stress of the win.
Due to their divorce, Adrian was forced to split the winnings equally with Gillian.
She previously told The Sun that the whirlwind of winning big around the big win cost the couple their marriage.
Since then, Adrian has been dumped three times, leaving his ego bruised and his bank balance dented.
One of his lovers, stable girl Samantha Burbidge, rejected his proposal to return to her penniless ex-boyfriend – with nearly £500,000 worth of gifts that Adrian lavished on her.
There was also Marta Jarosz, a former sausage factory worker, who received a £34,000 top-of-the-range Volvo V40 hatchback before breaking up with him.
Then came Lisa Kemp, a waitress who broke his heart when she dumped him while they were on holiday.
But this week he was seen smiling with ambulance worker Tracey Biles.
They piled a trolley full of shopping bags – including a loaf of bread – into the car after visiting their local supermarket on Sunday.
An onlooker said: “They both appeared to be very happy. It’s nice to see Adrian’s still humble enough to do the weekly shop at his nearest Tesco superstore.”
The couple have been together since last September when Tracey, 45, left her ex-boyfriend who bears an uncanny resemblance to Adrian.
Mark Newman, 56, believed they were in love and “happily settled” after instantly hitting it off in 2018 while working as bus drivers in Colchester, Essex.
But he claimed everything changed when they visited Adrian the following year as Tracey became “so flirty” and kept calling him “darling”.
The dad-of-four accuses the new couple of exchanging steamy sex messages before she moved out of their two-bed semi in September last year.
He became the second biggest UK Euromillions winner ever a year after Colin and Chris Weir, of Largs, Ayrshire, scooped £161million.
An anonymous ticket-holder currently holds the record after pocketing £195million in July 2022.