Steve Harvey Apologizes Multiple Times For ‘Miss Universe’ Mistake: I feel terrible. [VIDEO]

It was a rough Sunday evening for Steve Harvey. The talk show host and comedian hosted the Miss Universe competition and is now making headlines for making a critical mistake, when announcing the winner.

Harvey accidentally misread the finalists, stating that Miss Colombia was the winner but she was actually the first runner-up and Miss Philippines was the real winner. See a clip of what went down.

After rectifying the mishap life, Harvey hopped on Twitter writing:

I’d like to apologize wholeheartedly to Miss Colombia & Miss Philippines for my huge mistake. I feel terrible.

— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) December 21, 2015

Secondly, I’d like to apologize to the viewers at that I disappointed as well. Again it was an honest mistake.

— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) December 21, 2015

I don’t want to take away from this amazing night and pageant. As well as the wonderful contestants. They were all amazing.

— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) December 21, 2015

Here’s a photo of the card in question, that Harvey read from.

A photo posted by the Jasmine BRAND (@thejasminebrandcom) on Dec 20, 2015 at 8:01pm PST

And while folk were highly critical of Harvey’s mistake, we combed through Twitter and spotted some jaw-dropping racially motivated tweets.

A photo posted by the Jasmine BRAND (@thejasminebrandcom) on Dec 20, 2015 at 8:13pm PST

P.S. What are your thoughts? Are folk over-reacting about this or was this a massive mistake that should never have happened?

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