Steve Harvey says it was an honest mistake when he mixed up the victor of the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas Sunday night.
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Now, there is backlash from all the world against Steve Harvey and against the Miss Universe pageant, and none so venomous as that from the Colombian community themselves who still believe that Miss Colombia deserves the crown.
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From President Juan Manuel Santos to Miss Colombia’s relatives in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla, millions of Colombians who tuned in for Sunday’s pageant screamed joyously when it was announced that Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo had won this year’s crown.
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When the interviewer asked why she and other contestants surrounded Gutierrez instead of congratulating Wurtzbach after Miss Philippines received the crown, Riek said flatly: “Because none of us voted for Philippines”.
The pageant, held at the Planet Hollywood resort, is the first Miss Universe contest to take place since business tycoon and U.S. Presidential hopeful Donald Trump sold the Miss Universe Organization earlier this year following a backlash over comments he made about Mexicans living in the U.S.
Come September, he bought Miss Universe back, including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA from NBCUniversal. “Are you going to take the crown from me now?'” she added. “After winning last year’s Miss Universe we’re a beauty pageant powerhouse and nobody wants us to win again”. “I think… you have a whole country”, he said. Fox got the domestic rights to air Miss Universe.
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Riek said that Miss Universe 2015 first runner-up Ariadna Gutierrez was “robbed”. Miss Colombia herself is being laughed at and was called “Miss Universe for 3 minutes” in Colombian headlines. The incident was the most embarrassing and awkward moment in the history of the pageant. “Majority went over to Miss Colombia, because they knew her heart was breaking”. “Steve is a comedian, so I thought he was making a freakish joke”.
