"I have to apologize."
Those are the words Miss Universe host Steve Harvey was forced to utter — and may regret for years to come — after mistakenly crowning Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez-Arévalo, as the winner of the 2015 beauty pageant.
After Gutierrez-Arévalo was crowned and was performing the ritual wave to the audience inside the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort & Casino, Harvey came back on stage to deliver the awkward and devastating news.
"The first runner-up is Colombia," Harvey said.
That's when the real winner, Pia Alonzo Wurztbach of the Philippines, began to look around stunned and wondering what had just happened.
"Miss Universe 2015 is Philippines," Harvey said, ending the suspense.
"Listen, folks. Let me just take control of this," Harvey went on to tell the bewildered audience.
"This is exactly what's on the card. I will take responsibility of this. It was my mistake.
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