If this scandalous mid-aughts flub slipped your mind, allow us to remind you.
As the emcee for the Miss Universe pageant, Harvey was tasked with announcing the overall winner.
What might’ve seemed like an overwhelmingly harmless slip of the tongue turned into quite the nightmare for Harvey.
In fact, Harvey revealed that his mistake cost far more than a beauty queen’s bruised ego.
“It got real when things started coming over the gate,” Harvey said.
“Empty boxes with bows and pictures of bombs.
And these with death threats on social media that would pop up from fake IP addresses.
I wound up with 24-hour armed security at my house” (viaUS Weekly).
Harvey recalled the night of the mix-up was rough.
“I didn’t know the pain I was in.
I didn’t know how bad the mistake was,” he said.
But in his own defense, Harvey also said that the error wasn’t actually his fault.
“The dude in my ear said, ‘Read the next name on the card, Steve.
Hold, hold, hold.’
I looked at the next card.
I said, ‘Miss Colombia.’
I did what they told me in my ear, and I read that teleprompter.”
