Miss Universe Announced The Wrong Winner

Miss Universe host Steve Harvey makes a great slip contest, the winner of false names

Miss Universe host Steve Harvey announced the contest winner error at the end of Sunday night's big show in Las Vegas, and was forced to make an embarrassing apology.

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After the announcement of the Miss USA, Olivia Jordan, the third runner-up, Harvey initially named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo, as the winner of a big night, relegating the remaining contestant, Miss Philippines, Bea Alonzo Wurzbach, to the scene the second runner-up.

But after Arevalo received a crown and a bouquet of flowers, and Harvey announced he had made a mistake and that he was in fact Wurzbach is the winner.

A Wurzbach surprised, who had taken her place with the other racers behind Arevalo, then walked to center stage. Miss Universe last year, Colombia Paulina Vega, then remove the crown of the head and put it on Avrevalo Wurtzbach.

With all the competition racers stand in front of the stage, and the presentation concluded.

Harvey, who was hosting the competition for the first time, held to announce the order of finishers card for the Fox network cameras to see up close after that. He re-read the card, and noted that, "said" The first runner-up next to the name Columbia rider before producers asked if he had made a mistake. Talking to journalists afterwards, Harvey, executive to the owner of the competition WME-IMG-called human error.

"No one feels worse about this to me," said Harvey.

In addition to his apology on the air, Harvey expressed remorse for social media. However, he misspelled their countries at the beginning of both contenders before determining that also.