Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez, right, and Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach wait for the announcer to name the new Miss Universe at the Miss Universe pageant on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, in Las Vegas.
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After her victory was revealed, Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach confessed that she hasn’t reached out to humiliated runner-up Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez since.
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“Steve Harvey, the one who made the Miss Universe mistake, called the country “Columbia”, another article pointed out.
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Eventual victor Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach told reporters afterwards: “I’m very sorry, I did not take the crown away from her and I wish her well in whatever she wants to pursue after this pageant”.
A mystified Wurtzbach appeared stunned as she walked to the front of the stage alongside the crown-wearing Arevalo before last year’s Miss Universe from Colombia removed the crown and placed it on Wurtzbach’s head instead.
“It was then that he told me that they validated the results and the top 5 were jumbled, so I was no longer the victor”, she said.
“Everything happens for a reason, so I’m happy”, she said.
Hilton says his first reaction to the mix-up was that the pageant was “rigged” because he knew he and the other judges had voted for Miss Philippines. “For me, it was stolen”, Sincelejo resident Edgar Cardoso said. We feel so badly but it’s still a great night. “I really couldn’t believe it, I was so upset”, Riek said in the interview with Missology posted to their Facebook page. “They were all wonderful”, Harvey wrote. So, for a brief moment at least the contestant from Colombia was the Miss Universe.
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Harvey said it was his mistake for not reading out the name of the winners correctly. Wurtzbach said that she tried to approach Gutierrez onstage afterwards, but the Colombian was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women. However, she felt like the timing just felt off.
