Beauty pageants are places where grace and poise are meant to rule, but a decidedly awkward moment stole the show Sunday.

Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey wrongfully declared Miss Colombia the winner when she was the first runner-up. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, the contestant from the Philippines, had won.

A contrite Harvey was forced to fix his mistake.

“OK folks … I have to apologize,” he told a confused crowd in Las Vegas.

“Let me just take control of this. This is exactly what’s on the card. I will take responsibility for this. It was my mistake. It was on the card.”

Moments before, he’d announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the winner, and she was crowned. Waving a Colombian flag and smiling broadly, she blew kisses at the audience.

When Harvey returned to the stage, Wurtzbach appeared at a loss of what to do.

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.

Harvey later took to Twitter to apologize, but he made another misstep when he misspelled both Colombia and the Philippines in an initial tweet. That message was deleted.

“I don’t want to take away from this amazing night and pageant. As well as the wonderful contestants. They were all amazing,” Harvey wrote.

Exposing the truth about the wrong crown scandal at Miss Universe 2015

Closing with the highest result belonging to the Filipino beauty, the scandals of Miss Universe continued to last when they continuously appeared after the scandal of giving the wrong crown.

 Closing with the highest result belonging to the Filipino beauty, but the scandals of Miss Universe continued to last when they continuously appeared after the scandal of giving the wrong crown.

The finale of Miss Universe ended noisily when there was an opinion that the wrong crown was just a trick of the contest organizers to increase the percentage of Miss Universe viewers, but there were also many opinions that doubted that the results had been settled. The views on Youtube for the moment of confusion of the Miss name were reposted with thousands of videos and attracted tens of millions of views and countless articles exploiting this incident around the world.

 

The rare incident has made the final of Miss Universe the focus of the media.

After the contest, Miss Germany, Peru, and India caused a stir in public opinion when it was revealed that many other contestants were not satisfied with the results of the contest because of the lack of fairness. Miss Germany and Peru affirmed that “no one voted for Miss Philippines”.

The Indian flower said that the Philippines will be the host country of the Miss Universe contest in the near future. The relationship between Miss Philippines and President Benigno Aquino has been rediscovered and many speculations about Pia’s crown come from the influence of the president.

So what is the truth of giving this wrong crown?

TMZ revealed that before the finale, Steve drank, played cards for hours and lost big at the casino. In a video filmed by the audience, Steve was very angry when he spoke to a member of the organizers: “The reminder screen says Colombia is Miss Universe”.

 

Steve Hervey had to personally apologize to the audience and the 2 Misses for his fatal mistake.

Using a screen to remind the MC is very common in live programs, to assist the MC in memorizing numbers or announcing live results. According to the format of previous year’s Miss Universe contests, the screen will be displayed in the order from the 2nd runner-up to the name of Miss and then mention the 1st runner-up title, but this year when IMG bought the copyright, the announcement of the results was in the order of the 2nd runner-up, 1st runner-up and Miss.

MC Steve Hervey skipped the review of the coronation so he didn’t know about it. When announcing the results, he did not know whether the screen announced the 1st runner-up first or Miss first.

Miss Australia – Monika Radulovic revealed that, when host Steve Harvey announced the winner of Miss Colombia instead of the Philippines, the contestants were confused because it was obvious that the word “Philippines” appeared on the prompter and then the line: “Philippines, please take the first steps as Miss Universe” after Miss Colombia was crowned.

Recently, Miss Dominican Republic – Clarissa Molina also spoke out that she saw the Filipino words appear on the prompter a few seconds before the MC announced the results.

The final result is the average score of the division scores including: audience voting (calculating the average score plus), the judges’ score plus the score of 77 contestants voting (calculating the average score plus). According to many sources, the audience’s score for Miss Philippines is the highest and the judges all gave her the highest behavior score, so some contestants who did not vote for Miss Philippines could not change the results.

 

The judges on the coronation night took a photo with the new Miss.

After the finale of actress Niecty Nash, the judges of the finale shared a status line on her personal page that: “We all voted for her” with a photo of the power quartet taking a commemorative photo next to the new Miss Universe – Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. Perez Hilton also affirmed that she chose Miss Philippines for the crown

On social networks, an unauthenticated image of the ticket that MC Steve Harvey held in his hand was originally printed with the words “Miss Universe: Colombia” confirming that the announcement of the results had many twists and turns. However, netizens easily pointed out that this photo was a Photoshop product intended to harm Miss Philippines and was an unnecessary joke at a sensitive time that made the audience easily agitated and reacted strongly.

 

Photoshop’s product added to the noisy debate about the final result.

The unfortunate confusion of MC Steve Harvey made it impossible for Miss Colombia and the new Miss Universe to be comfortable on stage. The third victory in 42 years in this Universal beauty arena has helped the Philippines promote to become Asia’s No. 1 beauty powerhouse, ranking first in the world in 2015 with the achievement of Top 10 Miss World, Top 10 Miss International and 2 consecutive years of being crowned Miss Earth.