Soon after Miss Colombia was mistakenly named as Miss Universe, it became Twitter’s biggest trend, as social media users expressed their disbelief. Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo from Colombia had already been crowned and was excepting cheers from the audience when host Steve Harvey returned to announce the error saying I have to apologies, the first runner-up is Colombia. Miss Universe 2015 is Philippines!
Steve Harvey further added, it was “his mistake” and he would take responsibility for not reading the winning card correctly. Elegantly dressed Pia appeared shocked as former Miss Universe Colombia removed the crown from Miss Colombia and presented it to Miss Philippines instead.
Later he made another mistake when he misspelled both Colombia and the Philippines in an initial tweet. The tweet was later deleted.
“I’d like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible,” he tweeted in a second attempt. The message was re-tweeted more than 70,000 times.
The competition started with women representing 80 countries between the ages of 19 and 27. For the first time, viewers at home weighed in, with their votes being tallied in addition to four in-person celebrity judges.