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22/11/2013

Lottery Couple Hit By Cheating Claims

A couple who are to divorce, a year after they won a £148m lottery jackpot, have been hit by cheating rumours.

Gillian Bayford, 41, and her husband Adrian announced earlier this week that they had decided to go their separate ways. No reason for their separation was given at the time, but according to the Daily Mail, a source close to the couple has suggested there was someone else involved in the split.

They are quoted as saying Mrs Bayford became "obsessed" with the gardener the couple had hired to work on their 200acre Cambridgeshire estate. The mother-of-two is said to have spotted bodybuilder Chris Tovey working at a hotel and she later hired him to be the couple's gardener. She then became "obsessed" with his physique and found him to be "irresistible".

However, 40-year-old Tovey, who is also married, is understood to no longer be working for the couple following claims that he was run over by a golf buggy that was being driven by Mr Bayford.

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A close friend of Mr Tovey's wife told the Daily Mail: "Chris had been working self-employed around the area and they invited him to come and see their new house, and offered him a job working for them full-time.

"He seemed to enjoy the job and boasted about how much they were paying him. He said that she wore the trousers in the relationship and whatever she wanted at the house went.

"But as things went on we started to notice how much she would call him at all hours. You would be with him for the evening and she would call him two or three times. It was as if she was obsessed."

The friend added that rumours about the pair's relationship started earlier this year when they were spotted getting close at a party.

"They did not stop speaking the whole night long and people were noticing. She seemed to be very flirty. At one point he was showing her his watch and she seemed to be stroking his arm," they revealed.

"At the end of the evening she was the first to leave and Chris walked her to her car, but he was gone for over an hour. Teri was going mad in the house.

"She wanted to go out and challenge them about what was going on, but she said she was scared to make a scene because she could not afford for Chris to lose his job.

"Everyone has always denied that they actually had an affair, but they were certainly close."

Earlier this week, the Bayfords confirmed they had ended their relationship and were living in separate homes. They have two children together, an eight-year-old daughter and a son, aged six.

(JP/MH)

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"A couple who are to divorce, a year after they won a £148m lottery jackpot, have been hit by cheating rumours."