More beauty pageant fails

Host Steve Harvey speaks to the audience after Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez was crowned Miss Universe during the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant. Harvey made a mistake when reading the card. Picture: Steve Marcus

Host Steve Harvey speaks to the audience after Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez was crowned Miss Universe during the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant. Harvey made a mistake when reading the card. Picture: Steve Marcus

Published Dec 22, 2015

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It was a beauty pageant blunder that shocked the world.

Miss Columbia was already wearing this year's Miss Universe crown when host Steve Harvey returned to announce on live television that he had mistakenly read from a cue card, and that Miss Philippines was actually the winner.

In the following moments, the crown was removed and placed on the head of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines, other contestants rushed to console Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo of Colombia and a sheepish Harvey felt compelled to apologise.

But it's not the first beauty pageant fail. Here are five more...

AP and IOL MOJO

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