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Miss Universe: Miss Colombia’s gracious response after being mistakenly crowned victor

Steve Harvey, the pageant’s host, announced on Sunday night that Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez had won the coveted Miss Universe title. “The first runner-up is Colombia”, Harvey said. “We congratulate Miss Universe Philippines as Miss Universe 2015”. One of the contestants is speaking out, telling a reporter she’s not happy with who ended up with the crown.

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Chloë then showed her intent for changing the pageant as a whole, wanting to host a Miss Universe show based on interviews, public speaking and “philanthropic tenacity”.


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Harvey later deleted the erroneous tweet, posting another apology with the nations spelled correctly: “I’d like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake”.


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Miss Colombia for Miss Congeniality? “You know… I mean the terrible thing would be to leave it like it was”.

Harvey says it was his mistake and that he takes full responsibility.

It was the pageant’s first time on Fox, and the Nielsen company said the contest was seen in the United States by 6.2 million people – strong numbers for the network.

The Miss Universe Organization also released a statement.

Last year, the victor of the Miss Florida pageant had to give back her crown following a vote-tabulation error that was noticed days later.

When asked why she wanted to be Miss Universe, Wurtzbach replied: “I will use my voice to influence the youth and I would raise awareness to certain causes, like HIV awareness, that is timely and relevant to my country”. I sold it 6 months ago for a record price.

Miss Columbia was consoled by other contestants but she was just inconsolable.

She explained her confusion backstage after the show.

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Other beauty pageant insiders said another possible solution could have been crowning co-winners. In 2010 during a live broadcast of Australia’s Next Top Model, the host Sarah Murdoch named the wrong victor, and eventually corrected the mistake, after the first runner up already made her victory speech.

Steve Harvey holds up the card showing the winners after he incorrectly announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the winner at the Miss Universe pageant on Sunday Dec. 20 2015 in Las Vegas