Blue-tiful prize up for grabs.

Byline: By Duncan Gibbons

THESE builders got their hands on the jackpot even before tonight's pounds 85 million EuroMillions draw by helping the blue-tiful Miss Coventry promote the jaw-dropping top prize.

The brickies were buying tickets at Devlin's Newsagents, in Cross Cheap-ing, city centre, when stunning Sandra Marie Lees dropped by in full Lottery body paint.

With nine countries now playing, EuroMillions is the world's biggest multinational lottery game.

Each line costs pounds 1.50 with players picking five main numbers from 1 to 50 and two Lucky Star numbers from 1 to 9.

If the jackpot is won by a single ticket-holder it will be the world's biggest lottery prize ever paid out, earning the lucky recipient a staggering pounds 2,765 interest a day, or more than pounds 1,000,000 a year.

According to the Sunday Times Rich List, the winner would be wealthier than pop star Kylie Minogue, actress Keira Knightley and Formula One champ Lewis Hamilton put together.

Builder William Parker, 25, from Birmingham, said: "I would be totally reckless, I wouldn't last more than 10 years.

"I'd buy a fleet of flash cars and travel the world having it large."

And fellow customer Richard Roe, 35, from the Canal Basin, Coventry, said: "I don't normally play but I saw the size of the jackpot and decided to come in. I would give a lot of it to Oxfam. They help poor people in the world who have a lot of problems, but I would buy a house and buy my brothers and sisters a house too."

Sandra, 23, who was crowned Miss Coventry last year and works as a make-up artist at House of Fraser in Birmingham.

"It's not too embarrassing: most competitions have bikini rounds and I've had some body painting done before, so you get used to it," she said.

Her body art was applied by 2007 world champion body painter Carolyn Roper, from London.

Euromillions factfle

It would take a Coutts bank cashier 113 hours, or four-and-a-half solid days, to count pounds 85 million in pounds 50 notes.

If you stacked pounds 85 million in pounds 50 notes, the pile would reach 200 metres - that's nearly four times the height of Nelson's Column and 40 metres taller than Blackpool Tower.

Glasgow postal worker Angela Kelly became the UK's biggest ever lottery winner when she won the entire pounds 35,425,411.80 jackpot in 2007.

The European crown is held by Dolores McNamara from County Limerick, Ireland, who won pounds 77 million in 2005.

The most frequently drawn main number is 50, which has been drawn 44 times, while the most frequently drawn Lucky Star number is 1, appearing 66 times. The least frequently drawn ball is 46 which has only been drawn only 13 times.

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LIFT-OFF... Miss Coventry Sandra Marie Lee with builders William Parker, Mark Fullard and Marky Coles Picture by James Balfour JB050309euro-03