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Former US president George HW Bush has apologised again after a second woman claimed he groped her while they posed for a photograph.

Actress Jordana Grolnick also said Mr Bush, now 93, made a remark about his favourite magician being “David Cop-a-feel”, after illusionist David Copperfield.

She told the New York Post that Mr Bush, who uses a wheelchair, visited a theatre in the US state of Maine in August last year. She said he groped her while posing with her fellow castmates and his wife Barbara.

Grolnick decided to speak out after another actress, Heather Lind, revealed a similar incident from 2014. Grolnick said: “It really didn’t strike me as anything — it was the president.

“In light of all this ‘me too’ — with women coming out and telling their stories — I rethought it and thought ‘No, it shouldn’t happen.’

“I’m not trying to ruin the rest of his life. We should abolish that sort of behaviour at any level.”

A spokesperson for Mr Bush, who served one presidential term from 1989-93, apologised last night for the second time in 24 hours.

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A statement said: “At age 93, President Bush has been confined to a wheelchair for roughly five years, so his arm falls on the lower waist of people with whom he takes pictures.

"To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.

"Some have seen it as innocent, others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologises most sincerely.”