Oscars 2017 turned out to be a trending topic on social media when La La Land which dominated the 89th Academy Awards, was announced the winner of the Best Picture category, when in fact it was Moonlight. Within few hours of the goof up, the social media started flooding with all sorts of trolls, but the best one came from the official Miss Universe handle.
It so happened that the presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who were called to announce the winner, ended up announcing the wrong name. It was ultimately producer Jordan Horowitz who confirmed that there had been a mix up. The Miss Universe Organisation tweeted, “Have your people call our people – we know what to do.”
After the Miss Universe’s tweet, Steve Harvey and Pia Wurtzbach, both of who have been a part of such gaffe before (miss universe 2015 crowning controversy), took to twitter to share their views on the same. Here is what Steve tweeted...
Harvey’s name was dragged into it when Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel went into damage control to salvage the show. “This is very unfortunate what happened. Personally I blame Steve Harvey for this — I would like to see you get an Oscar anyway. Why can’t we just give a whole bunch of them,” Kimmel joked to a stunned audience.
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, who was under the spotlight during the infamous coronation scandal, also made light of the rather awkward situation. Choosing one of her commercials as the weapon to make her point, Wurtzbach made this on point tweet...
Steve Harvey has surely set a benchmark in the world of controversy with his gaffe, and everybody else is catching up to it.