Outraged Colombians look for blame in Miss Universe mix-up
Our sincerest apologies to Miss Universe Colombia 2015, Ariadna Gutierrez-Arévalo, Miss Universe Philippines 2015, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, their families and fans.
“Thank you for voting for me”, said Gutiérrez who insisted that she wasn’t annoyed with the whole embarrassing fiasco. I don’t want to take away from this awesome night and pageant.
When asked if she was okay, Miss Halozan fell to the floor and was later taken to hospital. She said she has no problem with it.
He held up the card for Fox network cameras to see up close.
Miss Germany shares her sentiments on the victor.
Harvey then realized he made a mistake.
In a taped segment of the show, it was revealed that there would have been 81 contestants, but Miss Slovenia, Ana Halozan, had to pull out of the competition shortly after she arrived in Las Vegas after a serious fall that left her in hospital. As well as for Pia Miss Philippines that she didn’t have her real crowning moment. Trump made disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants when he announced his bid for president, causing Spanish language network Univision to pull out from broadcasting Miss Universe and NBC to cut business ties with Trump.
Politicians from both Colombia and Philippines congratulated their contestants.
Drilon said Wurtzbach was undaunted in her quest for the beauty title despite two previous attempts to win the top spot in the Binibining Pilipinas pageant.
Trump couldn’t wait to hop onto his Twitter page to highlight the radio show host’s incompetence and blunder and claimed that the Harvey debacle would never would have happened if he was still the owner of the pageant.
“Things happen”, he said.
Even before Sunday night’s oops moment, the pageant was involved in another controversy when a backlash against Trump led Univision to pull out of the broadcast and the businessman to sell it in September.
ET reached out to Harvey for comment, but have been told the comedian is “unavailable”. “We witnessed that tonight when the wrong victor was initially announced”.