Two lucky winners came forward today to claim their share of a massive £90 million jackpot in Friday night's Euromillions draw. The pair of ticketholders will receive more than £45.5million each when their tickets have been fully validated, Camelot said. Their identities are yet to be revealed.

A lottery spokesman said: "No further details on the tickets or ticketholders will be released until the tickets have been fully validated and the prizes paid out."

The earliest this could take place would be Monday, it is understood. If the ticketholders are individuals rather than syndicates they will be catapulted straight into the list of the nation's richest people. Wealth of that magnitude would put them in the same league as DJ Chris Evans, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and film star Sir Michael Caine, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

Racing drivers David Coulthard and Jenson Button, supermodel Kate Moss, footballer Michael Owen and pop stars Pete Townshend and Sir Cliff Richard are also each worth between £40 million and £45 million, the list says. Sunday Times Rich List compiler Philip Beresford said this would be the first time a British lottery winner had appeared in the list.

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"It's extraordinary that in the years we've had the Lottery we haven't had anyone at this level," he told Sky News.

The winners would be best advised to keep quiet and get themselves sacked from their jobs, he added.

"If they've got any sense they'll keep very, very quiet about it or go and live in Monaco, where they can afford to, where they'll just be one of 1,000-odd millionaires," he said.

And when it came to leaving their job, he advised: "You've got to plan it very carefully and do it over the months. Get yourself sacked, that would be the best way."

The ticketholders can expect to end up with a £5 million house, £20 million in the bank and the rest in business and other property assets, he said. They could also make around £2 million per year in interest payments on the sum.

He went on: "These people will be particularly rich and everybody will be after them because they've got it as liquid cash.

"These people will be amongst the top 200 with cash, real cash, that they can use.

'Every bank, every hedge fund, everyone who wants an investment will be after them. They'll be queuing round the block trying to get to them."

Some lottery winners choose not to be identified and their names have never been published, but a fortune of this size is unlikely to remain hidden from friends and colleagues for long. Rich List compiler Philip Beresford said: 'If they've got any sense, they'll keep very, very quiet about it or go and live in Monaco, where they'll just be one of 1,000-odd millionaires.'

Although the winners are wealthy beyond most people's wildest dreams, the £45million doesn't get them into the top 1,000 on the Rich List. People worth £45million are ranked equal 1,023rd. But the ticket-holders can expect to end up with a £5million house, £20million in the bank and the rest in business and property assets, Mr Beresford added. They could also make around £2million a year in interest.

'These people will be particularly rich and everybody will be after them because they've got it as liquid cash,' he said.

If the winners wanted to get flash, they could buy a luxurious hideaway on a private island in the Caribbean for £27million - and still have just enough left over to buy billionaire Roman Abramovich's £18million, 420-acre estate in Fyning Hill, West Sussex.

Mark Gardiner, who once admitted that the £11million he won on the lottery in 1995 'hasn't made me happy a lot of the time', urged the winners to act with caution.

He added: 'I'd also say, "Enjoy yourself, do the one thing you have always wanted to do or buy, treat yourself with an impulse purchase and then take two steps back to let it all sink in."'

Lottery winnings are tax free.

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Two Brits Share £90m Euromillions Jackpot