A former contestant on the US version of The Apprentice says host Donald Trumpcommented on a woman's breasts and asked another to twirl for him after he ordered cast members to buy "sexier" clothes.
Gene Folkes was an unemployed financial adviser when he appeared on the programme's tenth series in 2010.
Folkes was the fifth contestant to be "fired" by Trump but claims he witnessed shocking behaviour during his brief time on the reality programme that Trump hosted from 2004 to 2015.
He's the latest person to step forward with claims of offensive comments against Trump as the Republican presidential candidate is mired in a scandal over comments he made while he was being filmed by US TV programme Access Hollywood in 2005.
In a lewd clip leaked to the media Trump can be heard boasting about groping women and saying "you can do anything" when you're a celebrity.
The candid conversation was recorded as Trump and presenter Billy Bush - former president George W Bush's cousin - travelled to the set of a soap opera.
Trump tells Bush: "You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.
"And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.
"Grab them by the p****. You can do anything."
rump brushed it off as "locker room banter" during a private conversation, but he has been dogged by controversy ever since the tape emerged last week.
There have been claims that Trump made offensive remarks in unreleased footage from The Apprentice, but MGM has said it will not release any tapes.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme Folkes claimed Trump commented on a female contestant's breast size and often critiqued people's appearances and whether they were attractive or not.
Folkes said: “He did us when we first went in. We all introduced ourselves and then he kind of looked back at his advisors and said 'Wow you know some really attractive people and some really attractive women'.
"Now keep in mind we had maybe met him just 30 minutes prior and he just launches right into the 16 of us that were there.
"He asked us, as the guys, to rate the beauty of the women, I think this may have been on day one of filming, and then he asked the women to rate us."
Folkes claimed Trump asked another contestant to twirl for him like a model.
He added: "He had a contestant, he called her forward and asked her to twirl for him after he had ordered us to go out shopping because he wanted to have a more sexier presentation from the contestants.
"He called for her to come where he could see her and he said you know turn around and she twirled for him to see her new outfit and he commented on her physique and her attractiveness."
Folkes said Trump made the comments on camera and men and women in the room were shocked, but no one stopped him as he was the star of the programme.
Folkes added: "He had a very bully mentality. You couldn’t stop him even if you wanted to. He just wasn’t going to listen to anything that anyone had to say."
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