Chandigarh's Harnaaz Sandhu won the Miss Universe beauty pageant on Monday and the 21-year-old has been the talk of the town ever since. However, there is one certain amusing incident from the competition that has left everyone scratching their heads.
It was the moment host Steve Harvey asked the Miss Universe winner to do her best animal impersonation onstage. However,?the other contenders were asked about their accomplishments, but Sandhu was asked to 'meow'.?
Sandhu was quite taken aback when Harvey said to her,?"I hear you do some pretty good animal impersonations. Let's hear your best one."
"Oh, my God, Steve, I was not expecting to do this on the world stage," she told him.
She took it in goof spirit and said,? "I have to do this ¡ª I have no other option."
Sandhu said she loves cats and would try her best to impersonate one.?
"Brace yourself everyone," she said before she began to 'meow'.
This moment left everyone quite shocked and wondering why Sandhu was deprived of a question of substance that could shed light on her accomplishments.
"OMG Miss India meowing at Steve Harvey is not what I was expecting to see tonight. Pretty sure the Miss Universe organization could have asked a better question¡ very frustrating but she was nothing if not confident," wrote one user on Twitter.
Another user wrote, "Steve doesn¡¯t make the questions he just ask them the judges do. Maybe they wanted to see her reaction to such a silly question. To see how she would handle it."
The 21-year-old winner is a women's empowerment advocate who has helped her mother teach women's health and hygiene at camps. She also works as an actor and has done two Punjabi feature films that are yet to be released.?
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