Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo for Colombia and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines stood next to each other on the stage as Harvey announced the victor, declaring Colombia Miss Universe.
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Miss Universe host Steve Harvey may have been set up to fail by a poorly designed cue card when he incorrectly announced Miss Colombia had won over Miss Philippines. But it would not be wrong to say that all these diversities would have gone unnoticed of Harvey has not committed the mistake. “This was a terribly honest human mistake and I am so regretful”, but deleted the tweet, correcting “Philippians” to “Philippines” and “Columbia” to “Colombia” in his second attempt.
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“She was crying and then there was a crowd around her, the girls who were comforting her”, Pia recalled of the backstage series of events following the controversial live broadcast.
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He later wrote on his Twitter account that he apologized wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia and Miss Philippines for his huge mistake.
Miss Philippines did end up receiving the diamond and blue topaz crown, but Miss Germany said she was surprise because none of the contestants voted for her.
Sarah-Lorraine Riek says that she is upset of the results of Miss Universe 2015.
“Steve actually passed on hosting this pageant twice this year before asking for a pie-in-the-sky fee and expecting the organisers to walk away”.
However, Trump no longer owns the Miss Universe Organization. Meanwhile, Miss Colombia, 21-year-old Ariadna Gutierrez, left a message for fans in a web video, suggesting that she’s ready to move on from the embarrassing blunder.
Hopefully, Miss Colombia is somewhere keeping her head up.
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Sunday night’s mix-up sparked a flurry of outraged comments on social media in Colombia, and made the front page of the main newspapers.
