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| William J. Bell |
In one of the epic fails in recent television history, Sunday night Miss Universe's host Steve Harvey named the wrong contestant as the winner—incorrectly announcing that Miss Columbia, Ariadna Gutierrez-Arévalo, was Miss Universe 2015. She was crowned and taking her accolades for over two minutes before Harvey returned to the stage to announce that he had made a grievous error. Miss Columbia was, in fact, the first runner-up. The winner was Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurzbach. This wasn't the first such blunder during a live TV event, and most certainly will not be the last. Perhaps the most memorable live event blunder from the world of daytime soap operas happened in 1986 at the Daytime Emmy Awards.
Another World stars Stephen Schnetzer (who played Cass Winthrop) and Julie Osburn (Kathleen McKinnon) presented a Daytime Emmy to the writing team of
The Young and the Restless, headed by William J. Bell. Bell accepted the award for "Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team" during the ceremony in New York City on July 17, his first writing win for
Y&R (he had previously won as head writer of
Days of our Lives).
"We've put in long hours, and many years, waiting for this moment. It is arrived," Bell said in his acceptance speech.
