What Happens When Someone is Coronated Too Soon....

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Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Wins 2015 Miss Universe -- Steve Harvey initially named the runner up as the winner. Now that was awkward.

Very awkward.

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1. How can Trump run a country if he can't run a beauty pageant?

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3. He doesn't.

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2. I saw that but could have sworn he read it correctly

My wife and I both said "we were right!" when he said it, as we predicted Philippines. I wish the clip would have started earlier so I could verify that.

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4. found this

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6. Wow - he screwed up alright.

He said "Miss Universe 2015 is" ... then looked at the card "Miss Colombia!". But the card said:

The first runner up is Miss Colombia.

Man, Steve Harvey must feel like shit. And the poor Colombian woman - she didn't even speak English and had no idea what was going on. That was quite the cringe fest.

Thanks for that!

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9. When it gets to the last two contestants, you're supposed to hear the first runner up speech

and then the name of the first runner up.

Steve should have said, "The first runner up is..." instead of "Miss Universe 2015 is..." before looking at his card. So basically, he flubbed his line -- THE line, that is. Well, mistakes are for learning from -- which means that Steve Harvey is now a genius.


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10. No the card actually said "The first runnerup in the Miss Universe Pagent is Miss Colombia".

I think he was thinking emmys and oscars where they announce the winner. He should have just read the card - which he admits is how he screwed up.

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13. You're right -- if this is what the card looked like

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Then it wasn't a mistake on Steve Harvey's part -- it was an out-and-out fuckup because he either misread what was on the card (inexcusable because he had at least 20 seconds, and because as a game show host, he reads cards for a living) or he just plain flubbed the one line he couldn't flub ("I've always depended on kindness of giraffes" ). Mistakes and accidents do happen; fuckups are mistakes and accidents that SHOULDN'T happen.


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8. I'd rather be waterboarded for four minutes and forty three seconds

than watch that again. Talk about an embarrassment of riches.


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5. Wow, Steve Harvey Fucks Up And SEZ....

"Don't hold it against the lady's" ????
What an asshole.

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7. It gets better

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Variety:

Harvey went on to say sorry on his Twitter, writing, “I’d like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible. Secondly, I’d like to apologize to the viewers at that I disappointed as well. Again it was an honest mistake...I don’t want to take away from this amazing night and pageant,” he went on. “As well as the wonderful contestants. They were all amazing.”

He tweeted a similar apology earlier, but misspelled the names of both countries, so the message was quickly deleted.

Well, it will make a great question on the next Family Feud...




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11. LOL.

Nicely done!

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12. LOL!

Attention DWS! Get behind the correct winner.

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14. What's German for "And the hits just keep on coming?"

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Mirror UK: The controversy surrounding the winner of the Miss Universe pageant just stepped up a gear...Miss Germany Sarah-Lorraine Riek, who came unplaced in the competition admitted afterwards that she wasn't happy with the result.

“I really couldn’t believe it, I was so upset. For me Miss France as the real winner,” she said in an interview uploaded to (a) Facebook page... “I was very happy for Miss Colombia because she really deserved it. I’m really not happy with the result and so are the other girls, I’m sorry to say it...Because no one of us voted for Philippines. I’m so sorry to say it.”

Miss Germany Corporation (Facebook): ...(W)e honestly congratulate Miss Philippines to her title Miss Universe!

Some messages came across we were not too happy to hear about. Some people blamed us for the comment Miss Universe Germany, Sara-Lorraine Riek, has given. We just want to make clear that THIS STATEMENT does NOT REFLECT OUR POINT OF VIEW - not of the event and of course not of the beautiful winner Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach.

We are actually crowning Miss Germany only based and organized here in Germany. We are not sending germany´s delegate to Miss Universe pageant...Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is actually half German whereon we are really happy about and proud of... CONGRATULATIONS, PIA!

Read 'em and weep, Steve -- oh, and here's a consolation prize: your screwup stopped Colombia from winning Miss Universe two years in a row. And may I suggest that the Miss Germany Corporation replace Ms. Reik with HER first runner-up?


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15. Saw the OP title: "What Happens When Someone is Coronated Too Soon..."

...and thought it was going to be about Hillary Clinton's campaign...

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16. When JUSTIN BIEBER can call you a fuckup

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You. Have. Fucked. Up.

GossipCop:

...After Miss Philippines was rightfully crowned as the winner (and) the host repeatedly apologized for the flub...(s)ocial media...became flooded with memes and gifs poking fun at the situation...One such meme played off (Justin) Bieber’s hit song 'Sorry', which features the line, “Is it too late now to say sorry?”



...As it circulated on Twitter and Instagram, Bieber...re-posted it on his own Instagram page. The singer wrote in the caption, “It’s so sad but this is too funny had to post no disrespect.” The post has since amassed more than 1.2 million likes.

No, he meant no disrespect, just enough worldwide ridicule and publicity to push Sorry into the #1 hit single slot, resulting in saying goodbye to Adele's Hello. At least somebody might come out of this a big winner...


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17. Poor Miss Columbia- Watch her face drop as she realizes what he's saying

For anyone who still doubted Steve Harvey was an idiot; You'd think all those years of reading index cards of top 5 answers on Family Feud would make him uniquely qualified for this gig, but here we are...

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18. Donald Trump has been suprisingly magnanimous

NY Daily News: “What happened to the girl from Colombia is devastating,” Trump...told Matt Lauer ...on the Today show...“To give it to her for a couple of minutes and then take it away--I would recommend that they go have a beautiful ceremony, which is good for the brand and good for Miss Universe, and do a co-winner. I think something like that could work.”

Trump tweeted on Monday morning..."Very sad what happened last night at the Miss Universe Pageant. I sold it 6 months ago for a record price. This would never have happened!”...That’s a different tune from the night before, however, when he tweeted out, “@MissUniverse final 3 on now. Great people, great new owner @IMG. WATCH.”

“You know, things happen, it’s live television, and the new owners are tremendous people,” he said (to Lauer)...(He) didn’t point the finger at Miss Universe host Steve Harvey, who took full responsibility for the on-air blunder. “It was a tough event, and you know what? Steve Harvey is a terrific guy, and things like this do happen,” Trump said.

That's as nasty as he got? Considering that Trump would have had every right to pile on the pageant, no one would have blamed him for running a victory lap with cleats on:

USA Today: Univision, the leading Spanish-language network, announced Thursday it's dumping Trump's Miss Universe pageant because of his "offensive remarks about Mexican immigrants."

Trump, who announced last week he is running for president as a Republican, said in his kick-off speech that, if elected, he planned to build a "great wall" on the border and make Mexico pay for it because Mexico is "sending" immigrants who are rapists, drug dealers and criminals.

This did not go down well at Univision, which serves millions of Mexican and Mexican-American viewers. "We will not be airing the Miss USA pageant on July 12th or working on any other projects tied to the Trump Organization," the network said on its website.

Maybe he's finally starting to listen to advice from his presidential campaign advisers to tone it down. Maybe he sees it as a way to mend fences with Hispanics. Whatever Trump's motivation, I'm sure the pageant is relieved that he's left such a relatively light footprint!


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