CORONAVIRUS FEARS MAY BRING

A half-clad Bridget (Renee Zellwegger) wearing undies, runners and fur coat and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) standing in the snow at the end of the movie is both funny and sweet at the same time.

Johnny (Patrick Swayze) and Baby (Jennifer Gray) after she turns up at his cabin and asks him to dance… they sway in time to the music, while brushing lips and stripping off. It’s so sexy.

It doesn’t get much sweeter than the friendship between Vada (Anna Chlumsky) and Thomas J (Macaulay Culkin) in the 1991 coming-of-age dramedy. The scene where they share an innocent kiss will melt your heart.

Without a doubt, the most shocking moment in the Irish soap’s history was when Miley Byrne did the dirty on wife Biddy with her cousin. Miley and Fidelma’s tryst in the hay bales is one of Irish TV’s most scandalous moments.

Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) and Paul Varjack’s (George Peppard) alleyway kiss at the end of Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a must-see. A long smooch standing in the New York rain never looked so good.

This sexy Dangerous Liaisons adaptation starred Ryan Phillippe, but it was the make-out session between Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar that got viewers hot under the collar.

IT’S goodbye to on-screen kissing as we know it as the film and TV industry adapts to life post-Covid-19.

Coronation Street resumes filming next week – but there’s no snogging allowed. In fact. rumour has it actors will be prodded with sticks if they get too close.

The same goes for other soaps and film sets for the foreseeable future under new rules banning passionate clinches.

To remind you what it’s all about, we take a look at 20 of the best on-screen kisses, guaranteed to melt the coldest of hearts…

Although Marisa Tomei and Christian Slater’s characters didn’t exactly get their happy ending in this revered ‘90s drama, the intense smooch during the hockey game scene is goal-worthy.

Paul Brennan’s love life would make your head spin: Yvonne, Nicola, Niamh, Fiona, Jane… But his true love was Helen Doyle, who ditched Mike at the altar for him and died in a car crash.

The scene in The Notebook when Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel McAdam) kiss in the rain after their trip around the pond on his boat is unforgettable. Their chemistry was so overwhelming that it later resulted in a real-life romance.