Miss Universe - wrong winner named - added link

[moolarkey]

I'm sure a few people saw this. I had the Miss Universe pageant on. The 3 finalists were USA, Colombia, and Philippines.
Steve Harvey is emceeing. He announces USA as 2nd runner up, she is visibly disappointed but carried it off well, gets her bouquet and walks of stage. All normal.

Colombia & Philippines walk to center stage, face each other holdings hands. He reads Miss Universe 2015 is Colombia, they hug and Philippines gets bouquet, walks to edge of stage w/USA.

Colombia get sash, crown, flowers and is doing usual walk & wave etc.

Harvey comes back on stage to announce there was a mistake and Philippines won. USA had to translate for Philippines.  She walks over, gets flowers and 2014 Miss Universe is there to take crown /sash from Colombia - Colombia doesn't grasp whats happening.

Steve Harvey talks again, said it was his mistake as he read it wrong.

They ran out of TV time. 

Wow - never seen that happen, heard of it but never seen it before.

[Velar Fricative]

So... I like watching Miss Universe. *blushes*

But holy shit. I couldn't believe what I was watching. Poor Miss Colombia and Miss Phillippines. The former, for obvious reasons. The latter, because she just didn't know what to do. You can't act all happy and celebrate after that!

[moolarkey]

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I really thought Philippines was going to get it and when he said Colombia I was surprised. I'm guessing he won't emcee a pageant again.

[ttt]

You had ONE JOB, Steve!

[Velar Fricative]

And when he showed the card with the OBVIOUS right country name...dammit, Steve! That long pause to make sure you read the right name and you still screwed up!

[lg28]

Omg it was so awful. I feel so bad for both of them!

[Vespasia]

The whole thing was terrible. They didn’t even play it off well. Harvey apologized and then just kind if wandered off stage. They cut the broadcast off with Miss Philippines looking shellshocked. I am not even sure she had her crown yet.

[sfy]

Dec 20, 2015 22:13:18 GMT -5 ttt said:

You had ONE JOB, Steve!

That's the problem. The man is working like 87 jobs. He probably doesn't know what day it is.

This is what happens when you have to support a wife whose beauty/fashion entourage is bigger than that of any celeb's .

[moolarkey]

Dec 20, 2015 22:18:57 GMT -5 sfy said:

Dec 20, 2015 22:13:18 GMT -5 ttt said:

You had ONE JOB, Steve!

That's the problem. The man is working like 87 jobs. He probably doesn't know what day it is.

This is what happens when you have to support a wife whose beauty/fashion entourage is bigger than that of any celeb's .

He is everywhere, he was more interesting and fun than people they usually have do this.

[josieposy]

Oh wow.

I gotta go look for video, because right now I'm envisioning this:

[josieposy]

Oh wow I didn't even realize there was a video in the OP. The app only shows a twitter link there so I had to open it up.

Awwwwwwwkwaaaaaard!

[moolarkey]

If this is Steve Harvey's real twitter, I'd say he's sort of shook up - Philippians rather than Philippines and Columbia rather than Colombia.


Steve Harvey Verified account
‏@iamsteveharvey

I want to apologize emphatically to Miss Philippians and Miss Columbia. This was a terribly honest human mistake and I am so regretful.

[Velar Fricative]

There are rumors of a TelePrompter issue. Still though, the card in his hand spelled it out so clearly. Read the card, not the TelePrompTer!

Unfortunately I can't find footage of what happened to Steve right after he announced the wrong winner. Miss Colombia was standing there for a really long period of time so I am wondering how she knew not to do the usual winner walk that they all do right away. Like, were people in front flailing their arms or something?

Awwwwwkward. But there are already some funny memes on Twitter!

[moolarkey]

Also- at about the time the pageant was letting out - a car went up on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and apparently seriously injured a big group of people. It's on most major news outlets now.

[Deleted]

Do you wonder if this was on purpose to get people talking?
Especially if Miss Columbia was surprised to win?
Conspiracy theorist.
But likely, the TelePrompTer said 'first runner up... Columbia, so miss Universe is...' And his card said miss Universe is... So he mixed it up.

[underwaterrhymes]

Dec 21, 2015 6:29:02 GMT -5 @hannymaren said:

Do you wonder if this was on purpose to get people talking?
Especially if Miss Columbia was surprised to win?
Conspiracy theorist.
But likely, the TelePrompTer said 'first runner up... Columbia, so miss Universe is...' And his card said miss Universe is... So he mixed it up.

I said this on ML too. I absolutely believe this was cooked up by the producers and that Steve Harvey was scripted to do this. I don't think the women were in the loop.

[WanderingWinoZ]

[ringstrue]

I think it was on purpose. I think they could/would have handled it differently (not taking off the crown on stage) if it was a real mistake.

[josieposy]

I dunno. You'd have to pay me A LOT of money to get me to go through with an intentional fuck up and take the Internet's wrath for it.

[Velar Fricative]

I would buy it being a stunt if it weren't two pageant-obsessed countries in the final two. Miss Universe counts on the business/PR support from such countries.

[iammalcolmx]

Dec 20, 2015 22:18:57 GMT -5 sfy said:

Dec 20, 2015 22:13:18 GMT -5 ttt said:

You had ONE JOB, Steve!

That's the problem. The man is working like 87 jobs. He probably doesn't know what day it is.

This is what happens when you have to support a wife whose beauty/fashion entourage is bigger than that of any celeb's .

I have heard stories about him in the ATL as well........

[Vespasia]

Dec 21, 2015 7:36:13 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

I would buy it being a stunt if it weren't two pageant-obsessed countries in the final two. Miss Universe counts on the business/PR support from such countries.

I also don't think it's really worth faking. We all may talk about it for a day or so but I doubt it will boost ratings next year.

[Vespasia]

We're all ignoring the true importance of Miss Universe - national costumes!!!

[jeaniebueller]

[Velar Fricative]

[wawa]

Dec 21, 2015 8:24:04 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

We're all ignoring the true importance of Miss Universe - national costumes!!!

*runs to Tom and Lorenzo*

doh!  they don't have them.

eta: I spoke too soon!

tomandlorenzo.com/2015/12/miss-universe-2015-part-1-angels-birds-and-flowers/

[wawa]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA!

[josieposy]

This is about as USA as you can get. I'm feeling very patriotic now.

[josieposy]

Venezuela.

[readyin07]

Sigh. It tells a lot about me that my first thought was stunt (I know nothing about this pageant).