Chris Packham left Autumnwatch viewers speechless after casually confessing that he "French kissed" a fox while he was a child.
The 56-year-old presenter had been speaking to his stepdaughter Megan McCubbin, 25, when he reminisced about the odd moment.
While watching a video of a fox stealing milk outside a house in Bristol on the BBC Two wildlife show, this appeared to job Chris' memory of a fox he had befriended when he was young.
He said: "I like the way it sticks its little tongue in [the bottle]. Foxes have got quite strong, narrow, rectangular tongues.
"At one point I had a pet fox when I was a kid and I used to tease it by putting food in my mouth.
"The fox would come up and every now and again it would put its tongue in my mouth and it would push it up underneath my lip.
"And it's not like a dog's tongue when they slip their tongue in occasionally when they're kissing you, this is a fox tongue you know."
His stepdaughter appeared to cringe over his remarks and he laughed, quipping: "Come on, being French kissed by a fox is a badge of honour.'
But Megan didn't appear to quite agree, replying: "It's a badge of honour for you but Chris there are some things you should keep to yourself."
Stunned viewers took to Twitter to comment, with one tweeting: "Chris Packham talking about being French kissed by a fox is not something I expected to see tonight."
While another wrote: "I'm with Megan on Chris Packham's fox snogging revelations."
A third commented: "Well, I wasn't expecting Chris Packham to talk about French kissing a fox."
Another joked: "I've heard Chris Packham called a "silver fox" but snogging a fox with aggressive tongue action is a tad far..."
*Autumnwatch airs weekdays on BBC Two
