Modern Family’s co-creator and writer Steve Levitan has revealed that producers are preparing a ‘public display of affection’ episode for the programme’s married gay couple, Cam and Mitchell. ‘We’ve had an episode planned for a long time that dealt with that subject,’ he told E! news. ‘So it almost bothers us that there was a little bit of controversy about it. Because we don’t want to appear that we’re answering the criticism.’

Here’s what Emmy nominees Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet just said about it…

“Don’t expect a Gone With the Wind type of thing happening, I know the fans would like that,” Ferguson said. “We’re doing an episode about Mitchell’s fear of PDA, so it’s not the kiss episode per se, but yeah. It’s going to be a really poignant, beautiful thing but less of an ordeal than people think it is.”

Stonestreet added that we’ll most likely see the highly anticipated liplock on the second season’s fourth episode, saying, “It’s a sweet moment for our show, not just a sweet moment for Mitch and Cam.”