Wrong winner is crowned at Miss Universe finale

He said: “I will take responsibility”.

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”.

And soon after, he had to “correct his congratulations”, later posting, “Adriana Gutierrez, you are still our Miss Universe!”. The host of Miss Universe messed up the victor and crowned the runner-up.

Steve Harvey holds up the cue card which may have tricked him into incorrectly announcing the wrong Miss Universe victor.

Harvey called for attention of the contestants, millions of TV viewers and hundreds of live audience. Congratulations Miss Universe 2015 Adriana Gutierrez!

After Harvey announced Gutierrez as the victor of the pageant and she was crowned, he came back and said he had made a mistake and the victor was Miss Philippines.

But Steve posted a snap of himself apologising in person to Miss Philippines on Instagram. She had no way to know if the comedian host was having fun at her expense.

Wurtzbach also talked about the awkward situation.

In Colombia, the daily papers and websites had similar headlines to the one from El Tiempo: “Ariadna Gutiérrez Was Miss Universe for 3 Minutes”. “Nobody feels worse about this than me”, Harvey said. It was my mistake.

Stunned, she walked to the front of the stage, where the coveted crown was taken off the head of Miss Colombia and put on hers.

“It’s a very non-traditional crowning moment, isn’t it?” she said in a conversation with Miss USA.

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. “I am so so regretful”. A 27-year-old native of Tulsa and a graduate of Boston University, she’s an actress and model with credits including “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” and “10.0 quake”. And a transcribing error caused the wrong author’s name to be announced for a National Book Award in 2011.