Actor Scott Baio has defended lewd and sexist remarks made by Donald Trump by telling women the comments heard in a leaked recording were just a sample of what men talk about behind closed doors.

On Friday evening, the 2005 recording of Mr Trump talking to the Access Hollywood host Billy Bush was leaked. In the recording, the Republican candidate made a series of lewd comments about women including boasting that he was such a “star” he can grab women “by the p***y”.

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Now, one of his few celebrity supporters has defended him, saying women say equally worse things and that the comments were “not a big thing”.

“I like Trump because Trump is not a politician, he talks like a guy,” former Happy Days actor Baio told Fox News on Sunday. “And ladies out there, this is what guys talk about when you’re not around. So if you’re offended by it, grow up, ok?

“And, by the way, this is what you guys talk about over white wine when you have your brunches. So take it easy with the phoney outrage, this is the way the world works. It’s not a big thing.

Several men on Twitter responded to the 56-year-old’s comments by highlighting that such comments are not exemplary of their normal conversations.

Another actor and Trump supporter, Jon Voight, also defended the 70-year-old over the weekend, saying he did not “know of too many men who haven’t expressed some sort of similar sexual terms towards women, especially in their younger years”.

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