Whitley Bay National Lottery winner takes part in Rankin photoshoot

The 30 millionaires, worth more than £190 million, gathered for a photoshoot by Rankin, who has photographed famous faces ranging from Queen Elizabeth II to the Rolling Stones.

The landmark line-up – who have won £194,465,555 between them – includes Sarah Cockings from Whitley Bay who banked £3million.

(Image: Matt Alexander/PA Media Assignments)

Sarah, 40, represented 2005 in the line-up, the year she landed her £3,045,705 life-changing Lotto jackpot win. 

She said at the photoshoot: “It has been an amazing experience and changed mine and my family's life.

"After winning I finished my degree, bought my own home and now have four wonderful children.

Rankin during a portrait shoot with 30 millionaires to celebrate The National Lottery's 30th birthday, at his studio in London (Image: Matt Alexander/PA Media Assignments)

"Although people still remember me paying for boob jobs for my two sisters, and then having one myself. I’m still very close to my sisters - we all live just a few minutes from each other.”

It is exactly 30 years since National Lottery tickets first went on sale in the UK on November 14 1994.

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The National Lottery has created more than 7,400 millionaires and paid out more than £95 billion in prizes since the first draw on 19 November 1994.

Rankin said: “I remember when The National Lottery first started and it was intriguing to meet the real winners and hear their stories and experiences.

“They are normal people who have had an extraordinary thing happen to them, transforming their lives. That is what we set out to capture.”