Former Miss America Harold weighs in on Miss Universe fiasco

Posted on December 24, 2015

By RFD Radio Network

CHAMPAIGN – If anyone knows what it’s like to be in the Miss Universe contestants’ elevated shoes, it’s former Miss America Erika Harold.

She feels for the contestants involved in host Steve Harvey’s gaffe where he announced the wrong winner of the pageant. Despite that, she doesn’t believe Harvey should get the boot.

“I think we’ll get past it,” Harold said. “If I was advising Steve Harvey, not that he needs my advice, but he needs to come out and do an interview and kind of make light of it.”

Harold suggested it would be a ratings draw for the pageant to bring Harvey back as host.

“What he has going for him is he’s extremely likable, Haold said. “People are rooting for him, he’s not a malicious person.”

Harold, a former Congressional candidate, practices law out of Champaign these days and also devotes her time to prison ministry.

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