The Miss Universe contestant from the Philippines is this year’s victor but for one brief moment, it appeared as if it might be a repeat win for Colombia.
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But after Miss Colombia received her crown and a bouquet of flowers, Harvey announced he had made an error and that Miss Philippines was in fact the victor.
At the Miss Universe pageant Sunday night, emcee Steve Harvey mistakenly named Miss Colombia the victor instead of Miss Philippines, the real victor, and then apologized.
Moments before, Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez was crowned.
Before the error was discovered, Santos wrote: “Colombians!” Please don’t. We feel so badly.
Miss Colombia, to her ever-lasting credit, kept her smile throughout, at least on stage. The big-time blunder wouldn’t have happened if he was still at the helm, he said.
Those were all the looks that Gutierrez-Arévalo had on her face.
“None of this was done on goal”. Again it was an honest mistake. “I have to apologize”. Pia will even be more famous this coming year because the world media will be more interested to interview her because of this incident.
But seconds later, Santos had to reverse himself. Nor should we. They are still very much ridiculous.
Wurtzbach, who had lost all hopes seeing Ariadna crowned, was shocked when Harvey redressed his mistake.
On NBC’s “Today” show Monday morning, Matt Lauer asked Trump what his solution would have been. “It’d be very cool”, Trump said.
Because it was the biggest thing to happen on an otherwise sleepy Sunday night, Twitter was out in full force in the aftermath of the event. “It’s live television”, he said. Then Harvey came back on stage and announced he had made a mistake.
“Listen folks, let me just take control of this”, Harvey continued.
She later told reporters she wished Miss Colombia the best. According to the pageant, a misreading led the announcer to read Miss Colo…
Miss Universe 2015 was the 64th Miss Universe pageant, held on December 20, 2015 at The AXIS, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. I sold it 6 months ago for a record price.
The competition started with women representing 80 countries between the ages of 19 and 27.
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He also tweeted an apology to the viewers, who for the first time weighed in on the contest, casting their votes to be tallied along with those of the four celebrity judges.
