Steve Harvey crowns wrong victor of Miss Universe

She hesitated before walking up to center stage, where Gutierrez stood with her crown, bouquet and “Miss Universe” sash. “We started a huge celebration when they said Colombia had won the Miss Universe title for the second straight year”, the president said.

“Miss Universe 2014 is…”

Miss Colombia was the first runner-up, he said, holding up the card that contained the official results.

When Harvey returned to the stage, Wurtzbach appeared at a loss of what to do.

Harvey was not almost as smooth about the whole ordeal – he wrote a tweet to once again apologize for his mistake, and ended up publishing possibly the most unfortunately misspelled tweet of 2015. Several fans were disappointed when it was revealed that a mistake occurred as it is Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach who clinched the crown and not Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez.

Natalia Cruz, a correspondent for Missosology – a site devoted to covering global beauty pageants – asked Riek why she and the other candidates went directly to Ms. Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, after Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, Ms. Philippines, was crowned as Ms. Universe. He announced the wrong lady as victor.

“Adriana Gutierrez was Miss Universe for four and a half minutes”, Colombia’s Caracol news network headlined a story about the bungle on the front page of its website.

Yesterday, ET Online reported Harvey as saying that he accidentally called out Miss Universe instead of first runner-up and realized it later upon looking at his cue card. I think I’d make ’em a co-winner. This was a terribly honest human mistake. As well as the wonderful contestants.

“None of us voted for Miss Philippines”, she continued with a laugh, adding, “that’s probably the most very bad situation ever”. They were all awesome.

“Everything happens for a reason”, the 21-year-old said via a video posted to the Miss Universe Twitter feed after the awkward finale.