Remember when Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner at the Miss Universe pageant this year? Well yesterday on The Tonight Show he revealed to Jimmy Fallon what really happened that memorable night.
For those of us who watched it go down on YouTube, it seemed to all happen in a blink of an eye. It didn’t, there was a 4 minute interval between him announcing the wrong name until he corrected his error. An error that he says went down like this, “I read the teleprompter, but the guy in my ear said read the next name.” Then he added, “The teleprompter just said, ‘the new 2015 Miss Universe is…’ And the next thing he said was, ‘read the next name.'” At that point, he read Miss Columbia’s name and went backstage.
Then like Justin Timberlake/Madonna song, 4 minutes, later, he heard words he can’t repeat on the NBC show. That is when the host learned that he read the wrong name. The producers’ decision was to wait until the next day to fix it. Harvey then told them no, took his “most gut wrenching walk” and admitted his mistake on International television.
Say what you want about him, he did the right thing. You have to respect him for doing that. Most people would’ve let it be handled in the press, but he faced it like a man. I, on the other hand, would’ve faced it like the girl that I am. I would get in my car and hightailed it out of there.
