British broadcaster Emma Freud made the off-colour joke on a recent podcast with Giovanna Fletcher. Video/Giovanna Fletcher
Broadcaster Emma Freud has joked about wanting to French kiss her 20-year-old son during a conversation about when mothers should stop being physically affectionate
Appearing on Giovanna Fletcher's Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, the broadcaster admitted she demands 'as much physical contact as possible' with her children Scarlett, 22, Jake, 20, Charlie, 16 and Spike, 13.
When Giovanna admitted she feared not being able to kiss and cuddle her sons when they're older, Emma replied: 'No. My 20-year-old. I would do him with tongues if I possibly could, if it wasn't quite so illegal, the Daily Mail reports.
'He does not like it, but I do. No, you carry on kissing and you carry on cuddling and you carry on snuggling and holding their hands as you walk down the street.
'They'll shrug you off a lot, but any moment that they don't you just sneak the hand back in. A lot of the time they will push you away, but you just push back.
Speaking about her son Jake, Emma joked that she'd 'do him with tongues', and said she insists on lots of affection from her children. Photo / Instagram
Emma is the great-granddaughter of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, who said that every child experiences unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent as part of theirpsychosexual development.
Emma also recently revealed how she proposed to her partner of 28 years, Richard Curtis, in the early stages of their relationship - and even got down on one knee.
The broadcaster told how she proposed to the screenwriter after just a year together on February 29, when women are traditionally 'allowed' to get down on one knee.
Speaking on the podcast Love Stories with Dolly Alderton, Freud told how she proposed to the Love Actually screenwriter during a walk in the park.
She said: 'We went to Regent's Park and we went down on one knee and said, 'Will you marry me?' and he said, 'No.''
Emma, 56, told how her partner asked for six months to 'think about it' - after which he presented her with a ring and said: 'Look I don't want to get married, but can we be not married for the rest of our lives?'
And speaking to Fearne Cotton for Stylist this week, she admitted that working on 1994 hit Four Weddings later put them both off marriage for good.
She said: 'We added up the number of weddings we had both been to and it was over 100.
'Those weddings were the basis of the movie, and also the reason that neither of us could imagine going down an aisle.
'And I always thought that if we didn't get married, we could never get divorced.'
The pair, who are responsible for rom-com classics Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and About Time, first met when Freud interviewed Curtis about his work with Comic Relief for BBC Radio 4.
She recalled: 'At the end of it, I wrote him a thank you letter for doing the interview which is something I did twice in my entire career.
'I think I knew quite early on that he was the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with.'
But despite an impressive list of hit films on their CV, Freud admitted she had 'never' seen one of Curtis's most famous works, hit comedy series Blackadder.
Speaking about her first impressions of him, she said: 'For someone who's written Blackadder - not that I'd seen it, and I still haven't seen it to be honest but I knew it was meant to be really funny [...] that is a sexy mixture.'
Gushing about her long-term partner, Freud said: "I think I've got the jackpot, I think I've got the triple jackpot; he's just incredible."
