Did you know that Tyra Banks’ “Top Model” franchise has spread across the globe and that there are versions of the show in a bunch of other countries? Well, the Australian version of the show is gonna be getting a call from Banks, I’ll bet, after the epic fail that was their finale episode of the most recent season. This time, viewers and a live audience got to choose the winner and when the time came to announce the results, producers accidentally gave the host the wrong name. In the video above, 19-year-old Kelsey is thanking the crowd for voting her “Australia’s Next Top Model,” when host Sarah Murdoch suddenly is informed by ear piece that, OOPSIES, the winner is actually the other chick, Amanda. This is a live television nightmare turned into reality. Someone’s gettin’ a Tyra-talkin’-to. [via Dlisted] ||||| Wrong winner announced in Top Model finale 
 
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 Amanda Ware has been crowned Australia's Next Top Model, but not before a major blunder on live TV which saw host Sarah Murdoch announce the wrong winner. 
 
 Model-turned-television host Murdoch originally named Kelsey Martinovich, 19, as the winner but minutes later she was told via her earpiece feed that the actual winner was 18-year-old Ware. 
 
 Martinovich had already made an acceptance speech before a close-to-tears Murdoch realised a mistake had been made. 
 
 "I don't know what to say right now. I'm feeling a bit sick about this," Murdoch told the live studio audience. 
 
 "I'm so sorry, oh my God, I don't know what to say. 
 
 "This is a complete accident. I'm so sorry ... It's Amanda. I'm so sorry." 
 
 Murdoch, holding her head in her hands, said the original name was fed to her wrongly. 
 
 "This is what happens when you have live TV folks. This is insane, insane, insane," she said. 
 
 Martinovich was gracious upon hearing the mistake and hugged and congratulated Queenslander Ware. 
 
 Ware said she was ecstatic about the win, but admitted the situation was "like a bizarre dream". 
 
 "I was like really gracious for Kelsey, I was so happy she'd won," Ware said. 
 
 "And then she's like, 'Actually, Amanda's won' and I was like, that's a bit weird but woo hoo. 
 
 "I'll just go with the flow. 
 
 "[I'm happy] as bad as that is. Live television's always got mistakes. That was a big one, but it's all right, we got through it." 
 
 Murdoch said the competition was so close and the final tally literally came down to just a few votes. 
 
 Foxtel has confirmed Martinovich will be given a $20,000 cash prize and a trip to New York as compensation for the bungle. 
 
 As the winner of the show, which is broadcast on FOX8, Ware receives a modelling contract, a $20,000 cash prize, a car and a trip to New York. 
 
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– In what's been called an epic fail, the finale of Australia's Next Top Model was thrown into confusion yesterday when the host announced the wrong winner. Sarah Murdoch (daughter-in-law of Rupert) named 19-year-old Kelsey Martinovich as victorious, but was informed minutes later via her earpiece feed that the actual winner was Amanda Ware. (Check out the video in the gallery.) Murdoch, who Australia's ABC reports was "close to tears," then had the unenviable task of telling Martinovich, who'd already made her acceptance speech, that she was not the winner. In front of a live studio audience, Murdoch said, "This was a complete accident. I'm so sorry. It's Amanda. I'm so sorry." A gracious Martinovich took it on the chin and congratulated Ware. FOX8, the show's broadcaster, offered the runner-up $20,000 and a trip to New York. Read the full article here or here at the Frisky.