Overbearing Steve Harvey missed rehearsal before crowning wrong woman Miss Universe

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

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Miss Universe host Steve Harvey said that he misread the cue card when he
mistakenly crowned Miss Colombia the pageant’s winner instead of the
actual winner, Miss Philippines, but sources say that the comedian had
also skipped out on a crucial part of the live broadcast's rehearsals.

"Steve went to the beginning of rehearsals but missed the last hour, at
least," an unnamed source told the New York Daily News. "He did not
practice the ending."

And while Harvey took the blame onstage, a behind-the-scenes Snapchat
post, which is no longer accessible, showed the comedian claiming that the
teleprompter fed him the wrong name.

"The prompter said 'Miss Universe — Colombia,'" Harvey told a producer
while waving his hands on the 7-second video, according to the Daily News.

The unnamed source told the paper, however, that the name of the winner
isn't displayed on the teleprompter.

"They don’t want the girls to see it," the source said.

The fallout from Sunday's show made Harvey an online symbol of "oops"
moments, drew a reaction from Colombia's president and even a gloating
tweet from Donald Trump, the pageant's previous owner.

As televised on Fox, the contest was down to Ariadna Gutiérrez Arevalo of
Colombia and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines when Harvey, a first-
time host, proclaimed Gutiérrez the winner after a long, dramatic pause.

Music swelled, Gutiérrez was fitted for a sash, given flowers and a crown
was placed on her head. That made it two consecutive Miss Universe winners
for Colombia, where the pageants are taken seriously. Gutiérrez bathed in
applause for nearly two minutes before Harvey slowly made his way back
onto the stage.

"I have to apologize," he said. "The first runner-up is Colombia."

The camera switched to a bewildered-looking Wurtzbach, who came back on
the stage to get the crown as the same celebratory music played. Harvey
said she'd be taking her first walk as Miss Universe, but mostly she stood
immobile.

Two minutes later, the comedian who hosts his own daytime talk show as
well as the game show "Family Feud" returned, saying, "Let me just take
control of this."

Harvey explained on the air that he misread the card he was given that had
the names of the winner and the first two runners-up. Colombia was listed
as the first runner-up, and he'd been confused with how it was written, he
told the audience. He held up the card for the camera.

"It is my mistake," he said. "Still, it's a great night. Please don't hold
it against the ladies. We feel very badly, but it's still a great night."

Harvey later tweeted an apology to the women and viewers. "I feel
terrible," he wrote. The Miss Universe organization also issued an apology
on Monday.

Wurtzbach later said she was happy to win but confused and concerned for
her rival. She said she tried to approach her backstage, but the Colombian
contestant was crying and surrounded by a crowd of women.

"I did not take the crown from her," Wurtzbach said.

Celebrations quickly turned to anger in Colombia, where the hashtag
"Respect the Crown" was the country's top trending topic on Twitter. Even
the president was upset.

"They put the crown on her head," President Juan Manuel Santos said
Monday. "The photos are there to prove it. To me, as a Colombian, she is
still Miss Universe."

It was the pageant's first time on the Fox network, and the Nielsen
company said the contest was seen in the United States by 6.2 million
people — strong numbers for the network. The previous Miss Universe on
NBC, in January 2015, reached 7.7 million people.

NBC dumped the pageant after Trump, its then-owner, angered many people
with comments about Mexicans and immigrants. Trump subsequently sold the
pageant.

After Harvey's flub, the Republican presidential candidate tweeted that
the mistake "would never have happened" on his watch. He retweeted someone
else's comment that Trump must be happy that the pageant had gone "off the
rails" after he sold it.

He softened his tone in an interview on NBC's "Today" show, calling Harvey
a "great guy" who handled the situation well. Trump said if he were still
in charge of the show, he would have the women share the title.

"Things happen," he said. "It's live television."

Harvey, the comedian, found himself the butt of Internet jokes Monday. One
prominent post showed his smiling face under the headline: "Happy Friday!"
followed by "Wait, sorry, it's Monday."

Last year, the winner of the Miss Florida pageant had to give back her
crown following a vote-tabulation error that was noticed days later. And a
transcription error caused the wrong author's name to be announced for a
National Book Award in 2011. Neither of those events happened on live
television, however.



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