Steve Harvey will once again host the Miss Universe pageant night to be held in the Philippines.
American host and comedian Steve Harvey has more to do than just have a hosting stint in the next Miss Universe Coronation Night which will be held somewhere in the Philippines on January 2017.
Harvey promised to apologize personally to the Filipino people after a mix-up controversy in the coronation night last year.
Still fresh in the minds of the Filipinos that in December 2015, Harvey hosted the Miss Universe 2015 pageant in Las Vegas. Upon announcing the final results, he mistakenly named the first runner-up, Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, as the winner. A few minutes after she was crowned, Harvey announced that he had read the results incorrectly and that Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, was the new Miss Universe.[34] He apologized to Wurtzbach outside the venue and later tweeted an apology to both contestants, mistakenly misspelling the country names.
Tourism undersecretary Kat de Castro said that Harvey told her that he has clear intentions to the Miss Universe Organization in his new hosting stint in the country despite the blunders that made a mark in the non-traditional crowning moment of the 26-year-old Cagayan de Oro beauty queen.
It was recently reported that the 59-year-old TV personality signed a multi-year contract with the organization and is going to host the prestigious pageant for the next three to seven years.
Harvey previously hosted Showtime at the Apollo, starred in The Steve Harvey Show, and was featured in The Original Kings of Comedy. He is a three-time Daytime Emmy Award winner, and a 13-time NAACP Image Award winner in various categories.
Born Broderick Stephen, Harvey also hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, the Steve Harvey talk show, Family Feud and Little Big Shots. He is the author of Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which was published in March 2009, and the book Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find and Keep a Man.