Friends say Gillian Bayford had already ‘wasted a small fortune’ on jobless Deans
A lottery winner has dumped her fraudster husband after he squandered millions of her £148million fortune on cars, holidays, watches and five-star football trips – as friends say he saw her as nothing more than ‘a cash machine’.
Gillian Bayford is said to have thrown convicted fraudster Brian Deans, 43, out of her Scottish home after rowing over his spending sprees.
But friends say the 51-year-old had already ‘wasted a small fortune’ on jobless Deans, who quickly became used to her money.
They say he would move out after rows with her – only to return as she treated him with lavish gifts, such as new cars.
And it is claimed she would do anything to keep her family together – after the pair became parents to a little girl during the 2020 Covid lockdown.
‘Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more,’ an insider told The Sun.
Gillian Bayford threw convicted fraudster Brian Deans, 43, out of her Scottish home after rowing over his spending sprees. Pictured: Together on their wedding dayGillian shared the huge Euromillions winnings with her then-husband Adrian, with whom she shares two children, aged 15 and 13Deans was said to have been living in a rundown Dundee flat at the time he met Gillian met, but later moved into her mansion
‘If they had kept going the way they were they could have ended up skint.’
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Deans was jailed for defrauding a Tesco out of £13,500 in 2012 – the same week that Gillian and her ex-husband Adrian won their £148million windfall.
He and a friend, who had mad thousands putting fake customer refunds through the store, were both jailed for six months. When he came out he worked renovating properties.
The former conman is now running a pub in Auchterarder after being thought to have already spent everything he had from Gillian, in what the source called a ‘tragic story’.
Gillian and Deans had moved to the Perthshire farm from Broughty Ferry, outside Dundee, in an attempt to make a fresh start, which fell flat.
He was said to have been living in a rundown Dundee flat at the time that they met, but later moved into her mansion.
And soon, sources say, he became used to the money and would spend her cash flying friends out to football matches and showing off that he was the one paying.
She would give him a monthly allowance, but it is claimed ‘besotted’ Gillian would have to fork out more and more cash to cover his lavish tastes.
Gillian’s plans to start a family with Mr Deans were put on hold last year when a former boyfriend, Gavin Innes, accused her of beating him while they were together. Pictured: Leaving courtGillian was working as a hospital worker at the time they won the lottery, while Adrian juggled being a postman alongside a second job running a music shop
Insiders claim his shopping sprees left her worried that all her fortune would be squandered.
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The source continued: ‘Brian saw Gillian as a cash machine, nothing more.’
Gillian shared the huge Euromillions winnings with her then-husband Adrian, with whom she shares two children, aged 15 and 13.
She was working as a hospital worker at the time, while he juggled being a postman alongside a second job running a music shop.
But they split only 15 months later, blaming the stress of handling their newfound wealth for the end of their nine-year marriage.
The father-of-two has notoriously been unlucky in love with two failed romances behind him.
After they divorced Ms Bayford moved back to Scotland and married father-of-one Deans in 2018.
Her plans to start a family with Mr Deans were put on hold last year when a former boyfriend, Gavin Innes, accused her of beating him while they were together.
She was convicted of a breach of the peace and was admonished – meaning she was able to go free with a warning from the judge.
She said she was shocked when she first found out that she was pregnant with daughter Emilie, who is now six months.
Speaking of her new baby Emilie, Ms Bayford said: ‘As far as she is concerned I’m not a lottery winner, I’m just Mum.
‘Some things are easier because of the money but it doesn’t really change anything. You still have to change a nappy or deal with her being sick on you regardless of how much you’re worth.’
Ms Bayford, who runs a property business near her home in Dundee, insisted that baby Emilie won’t be spoilt despite the family’s vast wealth.
‘She’s not dressed in designer clothes. She’s not got anything different to her brother and sister,’ she told The Sun.
‘They all need to know the value of money.’
Gillian refused to comment to The Sun, while Brian insisted that it was he who had ended the relationship.
Who is the biggest ever UK lottery winner? Two couples and a former car mechanic top list
Here are the ten previous UK winners of the EuroMillions draw so far
1. In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161million.
The couple, who have been married for 30 years, said they were ‘not scared’ of the wealth because they were going to have ‘so much fun’ with the money.
The pair, a retired TV cameraman and a retired psychiatric nurse, from Largs, in Ayrshire, said their children Carly, a photography student, and Jamie, a call centre worker, would be bought their own homes and cars.
The family made a £1million donation to the SNP shortly after winning.
Colin and Chris Weir became Europe’s biggest lottery winners when they scooped more than £161million in 2011
2. Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012.
The marriage ended just 15 months into their new jackpot winning lives, citing the stress of the money as the reason they needed to split.
At the time, a spokesman for Mrs Bayford said: ‘Gillian Bayford confirms that her marriage to Adrian has broken down irretrievably and they have separated.’
It came after Mrs Bayford was forced to deny she had an affair with the couple’s gardener, Chris Tovey.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012
3. An anonymous ticket-holder took home £123m in July
4. Patrick and Frances Connolly from County Armagh scooped the entire £115million EuroMillions jackpot on New Year’s Day 2019
5. An unnamed ticket-holder claimed just over £113million in October 2010, and chose not go public.
6. Neil Trotter, from south London, won nearly £108million, going from former car mechanic to multimillionaire in March 2014.
Neighbours in Croydon described he and partner Nicky Ottaway moved out ‘almost overnight’ after they scooped the EuroMillions jackpot last March.
Mr Trotter admitted at the time that he was like his namesake, Del Boy Trotter from Only Fools And Horses.
Neil Trotter, with partner Nicky Ottaway, won nearly £108million, going from former car mechanic to multimillionaire in March 2014
7. Steve Thomson and his wife Lenka, from West Sussex, became the UK’s biggest EuroMillions winners when they claimed a prize worth £105million in November 2019.
8. A couple from Cambridgeshire, Dave and Angela Dawes, won more than £101million on their third go on the EuroMillions draw in October 2011.
Mr Dawes said he ‘didn’t sleep a wink’ the night of the win, as it was too late to call Camelot after the couple checked their numbers.
Last year, the couple were taken to court by his son, an Afghanistan veteran, Michael Dawes, 32, who said he was ‘ungenerous in spirit’.
But a judge ruled the millionaire father does not need to keep bailing out his son, who burnt through £1.6million in two years, and came back for more, failing to heed his stepmother’s advice to stop eating at the Ritz and go to McDonald’s instead.
Dave and Angela Dawes won more than £101million on their third go on the EuroMillions draw in October 2011
9. A UK winner got a £93 million payout in June 2015, but decided to remain anonymous.
10. The Davies from Wales family won £61million on the EuroMillions in 2016
Stephanie Davies, 23 is said to have ‘reluctantly’ purchased the ticket at the time after her mother Sonia called her from Florida begging her to go out and buy one.
Keith Reynolds, Sonia Davies, Stephanie, Courtney Davies and Steve Powell all scooped money on the jackpot and said they were the ‘luckiest people’ on the planet to have won.
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