Hilarious moment Steve Harvey thinks he’s named the wrong Miss Universe winner ONCE AGAIN
MISS Universe host Steve Harvey thought he’d dropped another clanger last night – four years after he crowned the wrong winner live on air. The US entertainer, 62, got into a muddle over who won the costume round when a contestant snapped she was actually the winner and not her rival. Standing next to Miss […]
MISS Universe host Steve Harvey thought he’d dropped another clanger last night – four years after he crowned the wrong winner live on air.
The US entertainer, 62, got into a muddle over who won the costume round when a contestant snapped she was actually the winner and not her rival.
Standing next to Miss Malaysia Shweta Sekhon on stage, he said: “Earlier this week, all the contestants competed in a national costume contest.
“Here’s a look at the winner, Miss Philippines.”
Shweta interrupted firmly: “It’s not Philippines. It’s Malaysia.”
Flustered Harvey blamed the script on the teleprompter machine.
NOT AGAIN
He said: “Let me explain something to you. I just read that in the teleprompter.
“Ya’ll got to quit doing this to me. I can read.
“Now, they are trying to fix it now. See? This is what they did to me back in 2015 — played me short like that.”
Earlier in the show, Harvey joked about his 2015 mistake when he wrongly named Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo as Miss Universe.
Moments later her joy turned to tears when the crown was taken off her head and given to the real winner, Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurzbach.
Last night in Atlanta, Harvey said: “I’m hosting again. Fifth time. Can you believe it? I can’t.
“Ya’ll never really did let go of that Miss Colombia thing… I survived it all. When you fall, get up.”
“Colombia has gotten over that, too. They’ve forgiven me. Well, not all of them. The cartel is still trippin’ a little bit.”
This year’s Miss Colombia Gabriela Tafur Náder teased him when he announced she was in the top 20, asking if he was sure he read the results correctly.
But the contest later revealed Harvey was right all along.
“Miss Universe Philippines Gazini Ganados is the winner of the Miss Universe 2019 National Costume competition,” a spokesman for the competition said.
“As part of the broadcast, we also featured Miss Universe Malaysia Shweta Sekhon’s national costume.
“Miss Sekhon wasn’t aware we’d be announcing Philippines first, so she jumped the gun when Mr Harvey started with that news.
“Mr Harvey made a joke of it so as not to embarrass her, but no mistakes regarding the national costume winner were made by him, the prompter or production.”
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The overall winner last night was Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi.
The 2019 contest had already made history with Miss Myanmar, Swe Zin Htet, who says she’s the first openly gay contestant.
Last year, bitchy contestants were heard on a livestream openly mocking Miss Vietnam and Miss Cambodia for not speaking English.
