JOHN Laws has fired back at Em Rusciano who yesterday labelled the veteran broadcaster an “irrelevant, sexist, misogynist idiot”.

Laws wrote a letter to the 2Day FM breakfast host saying he had no idea who she was and ruling out a potential one-on-one chat between the two.

The letter comes after Rusciano blasted Laws on air yesterday after the 81-year-old’s interview on The Project during which he confirmed he still demands his female employees wear skirts at work.

“You bet,” Laws said told Steve Price on the Channel Ten program.

“I love women. It’s been one of my great downfalls in life. I love to talk to them. I’d much rather talk to them than a bunch of blokes and I love them to look feminine and to me, a skirt on a beautiful body is a very, very feminine thing.”

In The Project interview, Laws also said that “political correctness can totally annul freedom of speech” and that he doesn’t care if he gets in trouble.

“All this nonsense you can’t say somebody is fat ... if they’re fat, they’re fat for Christ’s sake,” Laws said.

Rusciano weighed in on Laws’ comments with her co-host Harley Breen yesterday morning and began her on-air smackdown by describing the radio star as “a very glamorous corpse with an interesting weave”.

She sarcastically praised Laws “for reminding us that women are only around for men to look at” and “the only way to show that I am a female is to wear a skirt and I only need to be in a workplace to provide eye candy for the men who are above me”.

In regards to Laws’s comments about freedom of speech, Rusciano said, “it means also that I can call you an irrelevant, sexist, misogynist idiot who should not be on air”.

Rusciano finished the break by offering herself up as a guest to appear on John Laws’s 2SM radio show.

“I’ll wear a three-piece suit and smoke a cigar ... Let’s sit down and have a chat buddy,” Rusciano said.

But John Laws responded to Rusciano’s offer in a letter and made it quite clear she’ll never be entering his studio for a chat.

The letter reads:

“M (I hope I have spelt that correctly)

“I have been told about the phone call from your very charming producer Kim, but I don’t know what you want.

“I can tell you what I don’t want, and that is to have some strange woman who I don’t know and probably don’t want to know, wander into my studio in a three-piece suit and smoking a cigar. Let alone wanting to call me Buddy!

“Dear, dear, dear you are a funny little person. I don’t know what the future holds for you but I do know it won’t include a so-called ‘irrelevant, sexist misogynist idiot who shouldn’t be on air’.”

Laws then saved the best line for last, ending the letter with, “P.S. By the way, who are you?”

The Em Rusciano Radio Show with Harley Breen weekdays from 6 on 1041 2DayFM