Steve Harvey reveals he had to hire armed security after Miss Universe mix-up

FROM death threats to pictures of bombs thrown over his fence, the backlash over Steve Harvey’s Miss Universe mistake forced the host to take drastic measures.

Steve Harvey reveals the drastic measures he had to take after revealing the wrong Miss Universe winner.(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

WHEN actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway mistakenly awarded La La Land the Oscar for Best Picture, millions had a flashback to Steve Harvey’s Miss Universe gaffe.

While hosting the 2015 pageant show, Harvey wrongfully awarded Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, the coveted crown — later realising it was actually Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, who had won.

De-crowning Miss Colombia.

And the host clearly understood what the two presenters were going through hilariously tweeting at Beatty when the awards finished.

Call me Warren Beatty. I can help you get through this! #Oscars

— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) February 27, 2017

While it was later proved that the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants were actually at fault for the Oscars mixup, Harvey didn’t have the same luxury.

Calling it “an honest mistake” at the time, Harvey admitted he had read the card wrong.

In an interview with Cigar Aficionado,the host recounted the drastic measures he had to resort to after the 2015 awards.

“I live on a dead-end street — and it got real when things started coming over the gate. Empty boxes with bows and pictures of bombs,” he recalled.

“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. I have two armed guards there fulltime to this day.”

Harvey still needs two armed guards at his house after reading the winner of Miss Universe 2015 wrong.

Despite it being over a year since the incident, Harvey admitted he has zero plans of heading to Colombia anytime soon.

“In the Philippines, they love me — but I can’t go to Colombia,” he said.

The morning after his mistake, “there was this massive crowd, all around my car outside the hotel — all these Colombians giving me hell. My Twitter and Instagram blew up and I got called every name in the book. I got cussed out in Spanish so bad that I know profanity in Spanish now”, Harvey said.

Despite the major stuff up, he was still allowed to host the awards a year later and thankfully announced the right winner.

The accountants who gave Beatty and Dunaway the wrong envelope for Best Picture weren’t so lucky.

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’, confirmed the PwC accountants Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz will never return to the Oscars.

The PriceWaterhouseCooper representatives responsible for handing out the winning envelopes.