{"id":175913,"date":"2015-12-21T07:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T07:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=175913"},"modified":"2015-12-21T07:48:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T07:48:48","slug":"miss-universe-gaffe-stirs-online-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/miss-universe-gaffe-stirs-online-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe gaffe stirs online storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Shock and disbelief have erupted online after the wrong Miss Universe winner was crowned.<\/p>\n
Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez was announced winner of the 2015 beauty pageant before organisers revealed she was actually the first runner-up.<\/p>\n
Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was later declared the winner.<\/p>\n
#MissUniverse2015 also became Twitter’s biggest trend of the night as thousands of social media users began to express disbelief using jokes and memes.<\/p>\n
‘Miss Information’<\/strong><\/p>\n “Talk about awkward,” described one Twitter user who “couldn’t help” but find the gaffe “hilarious”.<\/p>\n Another user, Mark Critch from Canada, said: “And the winner is – Miss Information.” It was shared close to 40,000 times and received more than 11,000 comments from viewers across the world.<\/p>\n “That was poorly handled. Both of these gorgeous ladies deserve an apology because that was embarrassing for both of them. I literally felt both of their pain,” read a top comment by Lemmy Cliff.<\/p>\n “That was the most annoying Miss Universe contest ever,” said another commenter Andres Felipe Arbelaez. “The host was horrible and Miss Colombia should have won.”<\/p>\n Pageant fans from the Philippines also began to express anger at the incident.<\/p>\n “Our Miss Philippines didn’t get her shining moment,” said a fan on Facebook. “It feels like she and our country were robbed of the winning moment, shame!”<\/p>\n
\nFacebook users also expressed their opinions on a post shared on the pageant’s official page.<\/p>\n