Steve Harvey arrives in the Philippines earlier this morning as he will once again host the Miss Universe pageant on Monday.
Tourism Undersecretary Kat de Castro posted a photo on her Twitter account stating, “Welcome to the Philippines, Steve Harvey!”
Steve Harvey, the host who announced the wrong winner in the Miss Universe 2015 promised to “do amazing” this time.
“Steve Harvey will be hosting again. And I had a chance to speak with him when I went on his show. He’s gonna do amazing this time, he promised me,” Miss USA Deshauna Barber said.
When the DOT announced that the Miss Universe pageant in the Philippines will be hosted once again by Harvey, the agency noted that it doesn’t matter who will be the host. The important thing is that the pageant will be held in the country and will surely boost the tourism industry, it stated.
Tourism Undersecretary Kat de Castro also said before that Harvey told the Miss Universe Organization that he wants to personally apologize to Filipinos after he mistakenly named Miss Colombia Ariadna Gutierrez as the new Miss Universe; when the title was supposed to go to the Philippines’ bet Pia Wurtzbach.
“He wants to apologize to the Filipinos who were hurt because of what happened,” de Castro stated.
Harvey already asked for forgiveness from both beauty queens, who competed last December 2015.
(Charina Clarisse L. Echaluce)