# Leigh's Birthday Special featuring Hollywood Royalty

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Podcast: [Unlikely Friends](https://stenobird.com/podcast/unlikely-friends-7532565)
Published: 2026-04-30T15:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://unlikely-friends.captivate.fm
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## Resource

“I think I might die soon…” Leigh Francis celebrates his birthday on Unlikely Friends, with Emma Bunton, Jade Jones and Jill Francis joined by very special guest Eric Stoltz for a brilliantly strange birthday episode. Leigh may be the birthday boy, but things get weird almost immediately as he reflects on getting older, becoming older than his dad ever was, and why every year now feels like a bonus. He’s cheered up quickly though, as Eric Stoltz is inside the pineapple this week - until Eric starts asking some surprisingly uncheery birthday questions about reincarnation, the apocalypse and what animal everyone would come back as. Also in this episode: why you should never wake Emma up, Emma’s fear of big things, and a surprisingly long detour into whales. Unlikely Friends is a Global production, available every Monday and Thursday on Global Player, YouTube or wherever you get your shows. Make sure you subscribe so you never miss an episode. Tell your Mum, don’t tell the Council.

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