"What would Hermione say? " gasps the London Daily Mail reporting on what happened at the eighth annual Whatsonstage theatre awards Sunday night. "Daniel Radcliffe's smouldering onstage kiss -- with a man! "

The gay twist on Adrien Brody's Oscar ambush of Halle Berry took place as Radcliffe arrived at the podium to receive one of his two awards for his performance in "Equus" in which he appeared nude: newcomer of the year and theater event of the year.

"But while onstage host James Corden, 29-year-old actor and writer of BBC2 show 'Gavin and Stacey,' grabbed the star, clasped his hands on his face and held on tightly for an embarrassingly lingering kiss," reports the newspaper.

What's quite, literally, touching about the incident is that Radcliffe seems nonplussed when pounced upon. He stands there motionless for a while as the awkward scenes goes on and on, then slowly raises his right arm to embrace Corden. The scene appears near the end of this YouTube video.

Frankly, I think a kiss would've been much more appropriate coming from the "Equus" horse.