A year after he announced the wrong winner at the 2015 Miss Universe, the talk show host will return to the pageant next month.
- Dec 16, 2016
AceShowbiz - Steve Harvey gets a second chance. The 59-year-old comedian has officially been tapped as the host for the 2016 Miss Universe that will be held a year after he made an embarrassing mistake by announcing the wrong winner at the pageant's 2015 edition.
In case you lived under a rock when the moment happened earlier this year, Harvey mistakenly announced Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the champ, while she's actually the first runner-up. She had received the crown, sash and flowers before Harvey returned to the stage to tell the crowd that he read his cue card wrong.
"I have to apologize, the first runner-up is Colombia," he said at the time. "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 ... horrible mistake."
Then-reigning Miss Universe Paulina Vega later took the crown off Gutierrez's head and put it on Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach's.
Following the major slip-up, Harvey was publicly ridiculed and he even received death threats. Speaking about how he felt when he went back on the stage, he said in an interview, "It was four minutes of pure hell... It was the most gut-wrenching walk I've ever had in my life."
The 2016 Miss Universe pageant will take place in the Philippines on January 29, 2017. Model Ashley Graham will serve as the backstage host.
