Ms. USA, who came in third, had to explain to Ms. Philippines she was the winner, it took a minute for it to sink in. The announcer than called for Ms. Philippines to come up-- he said "Philippines, take your first walk." But Ms. Colombia was still wearing the crown! The crowed booed, and Ms. Philippines froze. The host then took personal responsibility and said "it's still a great night" and don't hold it against the girls.

They sent in Ms. Universe 2014 to stand between Ms. Colombia and Ms. Philippines. She uncrowned Ms. Colombia and put the crown on Ms. Philippines, who was still frozen. The show went to black.

More than 10 million people voted during the show. Can you imagine being crowned Ms Universe on live TV in front of tens of millions of viewers, and then an announcer says in a foreign language you don't understand, "So Sorry?"

I was writing a post on the show as this happened. I'm no fan of beauty pageants, and had just landed on the show while flicking channels after Homeland ended. At the point I began watching, five semi-finalists were answering questions. (Ms. U.S.A. got a question on gun control and Ms. Colombia was asked about drug trafficking.) Since I kept the TV on as I've been writing, I was able to rewind it and recheck what happened. I've rewatched it three times, and each time, I'm more shocked.

First, I must say I really didn't care for the announcer even before his blunder. He spoke like he had marbles in his mouth. And whose decision was it for him not to call the women "Ms." but refer to them just by their country? During the personal questions, he would say, "Colombia, step on up." or "USA, Your Turn". It was demeaning, he might as well have called them "Hey You."

Here's what I had written up to that moment. Now having seen the ending, my thoughts are a bit different.

Miss Universe 2014, from Colombia, is gorgeous. As for 2015, the two last contestants standing, Ms. Colombia and Ms. Philippines couldn't be more different. Ms. Philippines was too provincial and had no sex appeal. Her hair in a bun didn't help. She seemed nervous. Ms. Colombia was sexy and confident, almost too much confident. I don't think she'll get the votes of the other contestants.

My thoughts now are Ms. Philippines handled the situation with much dignity. She wouldn't even take her walk when the announcer told her to (this was right before the physical crown switch.) As for Ms. Colombia, I'll bet she never has an over-confidence problem again. I feel so sorry for her. No one deserves that. She'll probably be scarred for life.

I'm going to update this with the host's name after I look up who it was.

Update: Ok, the host was Steve Harvey. (Sorry, I've never heard of him.)

On a related note: This writer at Deadspin (a male named Tom Ley) gets my vote for the most unsensitive male jerk of the year award for calling the blunder "hilarious" and writing, "This was just a wonderful bit of live TV."

The only person I can imagine taking such a perverse pleasure in Harvey's blooper is Donald Trump, who sold the pageant this year after Univision refused to air it due to his immigration comments.