“The first runner-up is Colombia”, he continued as Gutierrez-Arévalo looked on stunned. Last year’s Miss Universe, Colombia’s Paulina Vega, then removed the crown from Avrevalo’s head and placed it on Wurtzbach.
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Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was later declared the victor.
“Listen folks, let me just take control of this”, Harvey continued. “This is exactly what’s on the card”, he said, holding it up for the cameras. I will take responsibility for this. Thanks to Harvey’s mistake #MissUniverse2015 was the subject of over 4.5million tweets on Sunday, becoming a trending topic.
After this incident, #MissUniverse2015 also became Twitter’s biggest trend as thousands of social media users began to express disbelief using jokes and memes.
This year’s Miss Universe coronation night was held at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Steve Harvey is a stand-up comedian, TV host, radio host, actor, and author.
Shortly afterwards Steve sent out a series of tweets apologising for his mistake. As well as the wonderful contestants.
“It certainly was a awful error, bad for the young woman from Colombia, but, you know, things happen, it’s live television”, Trump said, in an interview with the Today Show’s Matt Lauer this morning.
It didn’t take long for Harvey to respond after the gaffe.
“That was the most annoying Miss Universe contest ever”, said another commenter Andres Felipe Arbelaez. Our sincerest apologies to Miss Universe Colombia, Miss Universe Philippines, their families and fans. Serving as master of ceremonies for the pageant, Harvey initially read the victor as Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, who was quickly crowned.
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Pia said she tried to reach out to Ariadna after the show.
