LOTTERY WINNER, ADRIAN BAYFORD, 49 WHO SPLIT FROM WIFE A YEAR AFTER £149MILLION WIN TO MARRY 27-YEAR-OLD BRIDE
A lottery winner who
split from his wife a year after scooping a £149million jackpot is to marry his
stable girl lover in a James Bond-themed ceremony.
Adrian Bayford's fiancée
Samantha Burbidge, 27, reportedly wants to walk down the aisle to the famous theme
tune of the 007 film franchise.
He will wear white suits
like those donned by Francisco Scaramanga, the villain of 1947 Bond film the
Man With The Golden Gun.
The eccentric wedding
plans have been laid after a whirlwind romance which has so far lasted just six
weeks, which has already seen Miss Burbidge move in with her new lover and
travel with him on holiday to the Maldives.
Mr Bayford split from
his wife Gillian, 41, in November and the couple announced that their marriage
had ‘broken down irretrievably’ 15 months after scooping Britain’s second
biggest lottery prize ever.
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Mr Bayford and his wife Gillian
separated and he moved out of their £6million Cambridgeshire estate
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Mr Bayford will wear a
Francisco Scaramanga-style white suit to wed his new bride
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It is understood that he proposed to Miss Burbidge during a candlelit dinner on the beach during their holiday at a plush £500-a-night resort.
Two weeks ago Miss
Burbidge had posted a picture on Facebook of her standing on a sun-drenched
beach.
The pair only returned
from overseas this week and were spotted looking tanned and relaxed as they
celebrated their engagement at a pub near his home in Haverhill, Suffolk, with
steak, chips and pints of cider.
Later the 20st former postman left his new fiancee at home while he headed out for a celebratory kebab, reports The Sun. He confirmed to the paper that he was newly engaged.
'I didn't get down on
one knee, but I proposed on the beach during a meal. It was beautiful. I'm over
the moon she said yes,' he said.
A friend of Miss
Burbidge said the pair had been 'like a couple of teenagers'.
'Samantha looks like the
cat that's got the cream and Adrian is completely smitten with her,' the friend
said, adding that Miss Burbige was in 'wedding planning overdrive'.
Miss Burbige had been
working at a stable in Thurlow, close to Mr Bayford's home in Haverhill, when
the pair met in a pub in January. Three weeks later she had moved into his
five-bedroom, £500,000 home.
Mrs Bayford, mother of
Mr Bayford's two children, declined to comment when contacted by The Sun last
night. Her husband's engagement looks likely to now spark a costly divorce
battle.
Mr Bayford – who
actually bought the winning EuroMillions ticket – blamed the stresses that the
massive jackpot brought for the collapse of their nine-year marriage.
Last month it was reported that he had developed a ‘friendly relationship’ with Polish-born Marta Jarosz, 30.
Miss Jarosz, who lives
in a terraced home close to Mr Bayford’s, works as a nightclub bouncer and is
thought to have met him while he was on a night out.
Mr Bayford told the Mail
at the time of the split from his wife: ‘Gillian and I have split. When you win
the lottery it’s so stressful. Things happen. Sometimes in life you have to
move on. We’re all happy now and life goes on.’
They strenuously denied
that anyone else was involved and Mrs Bayford brushed off rumours that she had
become close to their bodybuilding groundsman Chris Tovey, 40.
He worked for the couple
until he claimed he was hit by a golf buggy driven by Mr Bayford on their
200-acre estate and is now thought to be taking legal action against them.
In December, it was reported that Mrs Bayford was in a relationship with car dealer Alan Warnock, who sold her some of her fleet of cars.
They met in October last
year, when the Bayfords visited Gillian’s parents in Scotland – and were sold
five luxury vehicles at an Audi dealership by Mr Warnock.
Mrs Bayford, a former
hospital healthcare worker in Cambridge, is now thought to have set up home
with the sales manager in an exclusive estate in her home town of Dundee.
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