EuroMillions winner Adrian Bayford may have £148m but he can’t find love, has to pay people to be his friends and spends days scoffing Cornish pasties

WITH millions in the bank, most people would consider Adrian Bayford to be a very lucky man, But since his £148million EuroMillions win in 2012, the former postman has struggled with problems money simply cannot solve.

Adrian Bayford has taken to scoffing up to seven £1.50 pasties a day after having them delivered from a firm in Cornwall and is unhappy with his lot, locals claim

Unlucky in love, he has fallen out with friends and piled on weight as he sits alone in his vast mansion. As The Sun revealed this week, Adrian has taken to scoffing up to seven £1.50 pasties a day after having them delivered from a firm in Cornwall because they remind him of his childhood spent in the town of St Just.

Adrian Bayford, pictured at Oktoberfest last year, has been goaded over his fortune and been jilted by three women

When he does venture out of the £8.5million house in Haverhill, Suffolk, strangers taunt him or goad him about how little he gives to local good causes. His loneliness has become so chronic that he has taken to paying people to be his mates.
 One, Billy, has recently become his “full-time boxing trainer” as the 48-year-old embarks on yet another bid to shift the pounds. Others take money off him to act as taxi drivers, since Adrian never passed his test.

Just 15 months after Adrian’s jackpot win, wife Gillian, 46, divorced him

A couple of years ago he paid £375,000 for The Rose and Crown pub in a nearby village, but promptly fell out with bar staff and locals and now barely sets foot in it although he still owns it. But it is his love life that gives him the greatest sense of isolation.


Just 15 months after Adrian’s jackpot win, wife Gillian, 46, divorced him. She said their eight-year marriage had broken down “irretrievably”, and moved to Scotland with their two kids.

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, 31, rejected his proposal to return to her penniless ex-boyfriend - with nearly £500,000 worth of gifts that Adrian lavished on her.