5 Epic Times A Wrong Winner Was Announced on a Live Show

2006. Russia contestant Sofia Arzhakovskaya, 18, was crowned Mrs. World on April 29 in St. Petersburg. But not until Mrs. Costa Rica, Andrea Bermudez Romero, had been erroneously crowned.

Such offstage drama packaged for prime time, however, is decidedly not what pageant contestants and viewers have come to expect. Moreover, despite today’s voyeuristic television reality where reality programming is what sells, finding out who would capture the 2006 Mrs. World Pageant crown and its year-long role as an icon of married women the world over remained the real reason the 34 contestants had traveled to Russia in the first place, and why most viewers were tuning in.

Here’s the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZXhIExlnI