Scott confronts a girl who’s been claiming to be his 19-year-old daughter Emily Mills to chat up boys in Leeds, then the show gets unexpectedly sidetracked by listeners’ reactions to a bikini-wearing contestant on Shipwrecked.
The show opens with an email from a listener called Jamie who met a girl in Leeds claiming to be Emily Mills, daughter of “legendary Radio 1 DJ Danny Howard.” Scott and the team immediately spot the absurdity — Scott points out he’d have been in his late 40s to have a 19-year-old daughter, and besides, he doesn’t have one. The running jokes pile up: whether “Emily” was orange, had nice teeth, drank white wine, and if she had characteristics of someone related to Scott. They track down the girl’s number and Scott calls her directly. She eventually admits she might have spoken to a couple of boys while drunk but denies the specific claim, though she does confirm her name actually is Emily Mills. Scott makes her promise not to do it again.
The second half of the show pivots dramatically when Laura reveals she watched Shipwrecked the night before and had an unexpected reaction to Leon, a contestant in a bikini. Laura describes being mesmerised by Leon’s appearance in a way that’s confused her. This triggers a flood of emails and texts from female listeners who experienced exactly the same thing while watching the show. Callers ring in with their own reactions — one girlfriend apparently said “nice jugs,” another caller admits to “boob envy” and wishes she could be Leon. Scott reads extracts from Leon’s official Shipwrecked biography, including her answer that her best feature is her eyes (which Scott immediately disputes). By the end of the segment, even Scott admits he’s “starting to fall in love.” It’s a bizarre but genuine moment of the show following its own tangent.
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