There’s really only one adequate word to describe what just happened at the Miss Universe Pageant: “oops.”
During Sunday night’s pageant, host Steve Harvey called out Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the winner, and the crowd went wild.
One minor detail: Miss Colombia didn’t win, Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, did.
“Okay, folks,” he explained after an agonizing (in retrospect) few minutes of celebration for Miss Colombia. “I have to apologize. The first runner-up is Colombia.”
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“This is exactly what’s on the card,” Harvey said, holding it up, clearly uncomfortable. “I will take responsibility for this. It was my mistake. It was on the card… Please don’t hold it against the ladies.”
Yeah, nobody was holding it against the ladies, Steve — definitely your bad.
Watch the awkwardness below:
Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey TV announces the wrong winner. He announced Miss Colombia as winner but it should have been Miss Philippines. What a terrible error on live TV for the whole world to see. #MissUniverse
Posted by Team Jamaica on Sunday, December 20, 2015
Xzamilio
Sofa king cringe-worthy.
Kieran
Bring back Donald Trump. Please.
Giancarlo85
@Kieran: That insufferable idiot? I will pass.
Avery Alvarez
Excellent! (insert Mr. Burns GIF)
Fredrick Bertz
Who cares? I boycotted this year because it’s owned by Trump.
trell
…you had one job to do….!
I’d be happy to get paid loads of money to read a name off a card. Unlike Steve Harvey, I can do it in the correct order too! Where do I send my CV?
Desert Boy
Steve Harvey: Epic Idiot.
Alistair Wiseman
@Fredrick Bertz:
Big of you…especially considering he sold it.
robho3
Really Steven Harvey ??????? That was just wrong. Guess who won’t be hosting any more pagents anytime soon?
SFHandyman
Steve Harvey is a raging homophobe. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the pageant world.
He also insists atheists do not make suitable mates as they have no morality judge ruling over them making them be good.
If you need to be threatened with punishment by an all powerful being to be moral, you are NOT a good person.
Brian
This is such a stupid contest, anyway. You have all these women with their clone-like looks. Their hair is always long, their make-up is always heavy, and their overall look is cookie-cutter. They have no imagination or innovation in how they prepare themselves.
A lot of them are also very homophobic. Most of these women are very conservative and have a deep-seated opposition to male homosexuality in particular. They see male homosexuality as a threat to their ability to market themselves to men.
Don’t be seduced by their fake smiles.
JessPH
@Brian: Cynic much? Many of these women’s friends, managers, handlers and assistants are actually gay men.
JessPH
Besides tripping or slipping down the stage, the worst thing that could happen to a beauty pageant constant is to be declared a winner then have her crown immediately taken away from her. That is devastating. I feel sorry for Miss Colombia and I want to give her a hug.
Anyway, congratulations to Miss Philippines. She is stunning.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: Leave it to Jason Smeds to somehow bash women and make up some accusation he can’t back up. Was your own mother that bad to you?
Sweetie Pie
I watched the last 30 minutes and found myself cringing at their answers…but then I remembered it was a beauty pageant, not a brains contest
Glücklich
I can believe this ridiculous pageant is still around. I *can’t* believe it’s televised. Who watches this shit? Didn’t Miss America get relegated to some shit channel like CW or Oxygen before it was finally yanked off the air?
Glücklich
@Giancarlo85:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2015/12/14/anna-yocca-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-botched-coat-hanger-abortion/
Ian
I don’t understand why so people are angry at a beauty pageant. Yes, it has it faults, but the amount of disdain people have towards it is stupid. It’s for entertainment. Sport shows have no real value, but people watch that and defend them like crazy. For some people pageants are important and for some it isn’t, can we just not be jerks to each other about it? (Oh wait, derr Internet). Also, Miss Philippines said that if she won she’d use the Miss Universe platform to bring more awareness about HIV, something that lot of people are ignorant about, including more than a handful of gay men.
Kieran
It just shows what a colossal ego Steve Harvey has that he would say something like “Please don’t hold this against the ladies”. WTF? Why would we hold your stupendous goof up against “the ladies”?
Giancarlo85
@Glücklich: And what does that have to do with Jason Smeds (Brian) bullshit? Absolutely nothing.
And for the record, I wouldn’t waste my time watching this show. Educational programming is lacking these days. Thank goodness for my Roku box. They added a new documentary channel… Smithsonian also has a channel. I am talking about actual documentaries… My favorite are ones of far away countries. BTW, I don’t even have cable TV. Cancelled it three years ago! I have my Roku box and an HD antenna for local channels.
Manny Yoko
/ UNACCEPTABLE !!
Glücklich
@Giancarlo85:
You asked what Smeds’ mother could have done…that’s the first offense I envisioned.
DarkZephyr
Omg poor Miss Columbia! Sooo wrong! She seemed to handle it with grace, however. Steve Harvey better stop making fun of how dumb contestants can be on Family Feud, I suppose.
DarkZephyr
@Glücklich: I shouldn’t be chuckling at that, but I am lol
stranded
@Ian: I agree; and it’s not like it has the influence it once did. I’m an educator, and in my 5 years of work, not one student has mentioned Miss America, or Universe or California as anything they admire. In fact, i doubt they know the competition exists.
@Kieran, I can understand that. Fans of Miss Columbia would be angry and Miss Philippine for “taking away her crown,” I’m guessing more so after this stumble. You cant rationalize the antics of fanatics.
Stache
@Ian: Oh yes. I know that some say this is nothing but a objectified dehumanizing patriarchal outdated show of make-up clad zombies and a real setback for women. It’s not I tell you. Who else is going to stick up for people with hiv and world hunger?
Tracy Pope
@Glücklich: Coffee. Laugh. Nose. Burn. 😉 But I shouldn’t have.
Stache
I should also mention looking as good as they are while educating people about it. Seriously, people pay attention to you when you look hot.
Philigree
@Brian: yes. we know that some dude dumped you for some chick. let it go already. besides, its not like you can fault her considering how nasty and backwards you are.
Philigree
@JessPH: and many of them are like brian himself… which is why they didn’t win.
Kieran
Donald Trump must be overjoyed that 6 months after he sells Miss Universe for a record price, it goes completely off the rails. That disaster never would have happened if Trump were running the show.
Captain Obvious
Wait so people are really upset about something this stupid? Parade women around like herded cows dressed up like Barbie dolls and instead we’re angry because someone made a mistake in real life? Grow the f up. America is full of adult babies. It’s so sickening.
I couldn’t care less who the host was. Mistakes happen. Who is even watching these stupid pageants while women are talking about equality?
Really, America?
ButtStuff
@Giancarlo85: What does your Roku have to do with anything? God damn you’re dumb. By the way, I loved your meltdown over your missing posts. Do you really think Republicans, hacked Queerty just so they could delete your comments? Holy fucking shit thats paranoid. You poor thing.
Curtispsf
“Don’t take this out on the ladies”! WTF? If I were Miss Columbia, I would have clutched my Tiara Crown close to my bosom while thrashing Steve Harvey over his head repeatedly with the bouquet of flowers they had given her, screaming “No, no, no…you can not take this away from me.”
On the general caliber of contestants, please see https://youtu.be/lj3iNxZ8Dww.
Giancarlo85
@ButtStuff: Oh look everybody… It is the convenient attention hoe. He is back demanding more attention. I was talking about what is on TV. I know reading comprehension is incredibly difficult for you, so I will keep it simple.
There are a million other things I would rather watch that this.
You are a demented fool. Go back to allegedly chasing after teens on that other site. And I am not the only one who has seen my comments simply not posted. About five or six others have complained about it too.
Giancarlo85
So buttcrude, is the rumor about you wanting to get with a 14 year old (texman) true? C.h.a.t.h.o.u.r needs you back. Be gone, useless troll!
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *than this
Brian
Gay men are known to be enablers of homophobic women. You see it all the time. In fact, I think the new definition of “gay man” should be “enabler of homophobic women”.
Neonegro
lol..that was funny
Neonegro
and what exactly is wrong with objectifying people who want to be objectified?
Giancarlo85
@Brian: You are an enabler of right wing bigotry and women bashing. Have you considered a move to Saudi Arabia? You can be a closet queen there… and bash on women. You might like Saudi policy… Women can’t even drive.
Kieran
I can see the Dumbing Down of America so clearly just by comparing the 1970s version of Family Feud hosted by Richard Dawson with the Steve Harvey version of today that apparently is so popular. The modern day version is just totally inferior. Dick Clark’s $25,000 Pyramid, same thing.
Giancarlo85
@Kieran: Yeah… well a good portion of America that has been part of the “dumbed down” vote republican still. Take a look at shows like Duck Dynasty and Gold Rush. Yeah, stupidity reigns supreme in good portions of this country.
Kieran
“I want to apologize emphatically to Miss Philippians and Miss Columbia. This was a terribly honest human mistake and I am so regretful.”
—Steve Harvey apology tweet wherein he misspells the names of the two countries involved.
tusgold
@Fredrick Bertz: typical TRUMP everything is fantastic or fabulous or TERRIBLE
Giancarlo85
@Kieran: I can’t stand this guy. Doesn’t he have autocorrect? Or is he going to blame autocorrect for making the error?
Kangol
@Kieran: He’s an idiot, and a hom0phobe. But then so was Donald Trump.
The whole beauty pageant nonsense should be consigned to the dustbin of history, or refocused so that these young women’s intellects, good work in the world, etc., is the focus.
One could argue that being gifted with what is essentially a narrow, socially constructed physical aesthetic ideal should be no basis for a contest in 2015, but then again, would I feel the same way about a Mr. Gay World or Mr. Gay Latin America or Mr. Gay Africa or Mr. Gay South Asia, etc. contest? So I have to put that overarching judgment in check.
Congrats to Ms. Philippines. She really is beautiful!
hyhybt
@Kieran: There IS no current version of Pyramid, is there? GSN did a pretty decent job bringing it back a few years ago, except they only made a few weeks and never renewed it.
As for Harvey being homophobic… I don’t care for his talk show, and only watch Feud occasionally. What has he said or done to indicate homophobia?
mz.sam
However, the biggest joke of all is homophobe Steve Harvey signed a contract with Fox to host two more pageants!