A statement on behalf of the couple said: “They are applying for divorce amicably.”Pals said it was an ‘open secret’ they had drifted apart following their record-breaking £161m jackpot win in 2011.
The Weirs pumped a fortune into their favourite football team Partick Thistle and the SNP - and also set up a charitable trust with their winnings.A local said: “The suggestion is that they’ve been apart for many, many months. They were catapulted into the Sunday Times Rich List above Beatle Ringo Starr and Sir Tom Jones but shunned an expensive holiday to go to Brighton where they decided how to spend their cash.
He revealed he’d forked out for a tractor to help tend his sprawling estate, which boasts a rambling garden, walled garden, a small forest, pond, glass houses and stables. But in August last year, cracks appeared to begin to show in the couple’s marriage when Colin handed over the gaff to Chris - and he bought a pad of his own.The Jags-mad couple put in the dough in return for a ten per cent club stake.
In 2012, the big-hearted pair bought teenager Kieran Maxwell from Heighington, near Darlington, a prosthetic leg after his was amputated. The couple also donated £3.5m to the pro-independence Yes Scotland campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum.
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