Last night, Steve Harvey was probably more worried about how much money his wife was spending and whether or not he would be able to pick up one of the Miss Universe contestants at the after party than, his actual hosting duties. Miss Universe pageant host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner at the end of Sunday night’s big show in Las Vegas and was forced to make an embarrassing apology.
After announcing Miss USA, Olivia Jordan, as the third runner-up, Harvey initially named Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo, as the night’s big winner, relegating the remaining contestant, Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurzbach, to the second runner-up spot.
But after Arevalo received the crown and a bouquet of flowers, Harvey announced he had made an error and that Wurzbach was in fact the winner.
A stunned Wurzbach, who had taken her place with the other contestants behind Arevalo, then walked out to center stage. Last year’s Miss Universe, Colombia’s Paulina Vega, then removed the crown from Avrevalo’s head and placed it on Wurtzbach.
Ahh, but it gets so much better. Harvey posted an apology tweet later, but directed it at “Miss Philippians” and “Miss Columbia”. He deleted the tweet and posted several with the correct spelling, but it had already dumped a ton of fuel on the fire: