Oscars backlash was nothing compared to Miss Universe

 


WHEN actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly awarded La La Land the Oscar for Best Picture, millions had a flashback to Steve Harvey’s Miss Universe gaffe.

While hosting the 2015 pageant show, Harvey wrongfully awarded Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, the coveted crown — later realising it was actually Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, who had won.


While it was later proved that the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants were actually at fault for the Oscars mixup, Harvey didn’t have the same luxury.
Calling it “an honest mistake” at the time, Harvey admitted he had read the card wrong.

Despite it being over a year since the incident, Harvey admitted he has zero plans of heading to Colombia anytime soon.
“In the Philippines, they love me — but I can’t go to Colombia,” he said.
The morning after his mistake, “there was this massive crowd, all around my car outside the hotel — all these Colombians giving me hell. My Twitter and Instagram blew up and I got called every name in the book. I got cussed out in Spanish so bad that I know profanity in Spanish now”, Harvey said.

Despite the major stuff up, he was still allowed to host the awards a year later and thankfully announced the right winner.
The accountants who gave Beatty and Dunaway the wrong envelope for Best Picture weren’t so lucky.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’, confirmed the PwC accountants Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz will never return to the Oscars.