The One where the Pineapple Starts Talking

This week on Unlikely Friends, Leigh Francis, Emma Bunton, Jade Jones, and Jill Francis kick things off by asking: are they posh?Leigh launches into his best posh accent and admits he quite fancies talking like that permanently. This sparks a competitive (and slightly accusatory) debate about whose kids have the poshest accents — only for everyone to eventually admit that all their children sound a bit posh-with-a-London-twist.Emma shares a brilliant mishap from Heart Radio where she ended up with chocolate smeared across her face mid-show, and Jade reveals that whatever Emma eats inevitably ends up on her face too. Leigh joins in with a cinematic confession about finding popcorn buried in his chest hair after trips to the movies.Jade introduces her term “Kwengy” — those tiny white bits that gather in the corners of people’s mouths — which somehow leads them into a chat about the mysterious white stinky mouth-balls. (Unfortunately necessary.)They summon the ancient spirit of the pineapple, triggering a chaotic city-naming game in which Jill… really gives it a go. They follow it up with Andrew Garfield’s family Christmas favourite, the Giddy and Honest game, which sends the whole group into joyful chaos.The pineapple’s topic this week is laundry — prompting memories of laundrettes in Golders Green, childhood wash-days, and confessions about how useless the boys were with laundry when they first met Emma and Jill. Leigh even admits that he once phoned Jill while she was in hospital because he’d run out of pants. Classic romance.They wrap up with a chat about spiders, frogs, foxes, and some excellent anthropomorphising from Leigh, plus a spirited debate on the mysteries of secret socks.A wonderfully weird, cosy, and chaotic episode. See you on Monday.