Someone Confused Whoopi Goldberg For Oprah At The Oscars

Someone's in trouble tonight. 

Beauty site Total Beauty mistakenly identified Whoopi Goldberg as Oprah in a mortifying Twitter gaffe during the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night. 

The tweet, captured below by Marc Love before it was deleted, had over 2,000 retweets and 1,000 favorites.

.@TotalBeauty’s now-deleted tweet mistaking Whoopi for Oprah. pic.twitter.com/fGZCQbRboU

— Marc Love (@marcslove) February 29, 2016

The Twittersphere quickly made the most of the embarrassing mix-up:

White people can tell these men apart but not OPRAH AND WHOOPI GOLDBERG? #Oscars pic.twitter.com/3wZcAhBhy3

— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) February 29, 2016

We had no idea @Oprah was a 9 year old boy, and we love it. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/UveHOBktBb

— Jordie (@BarstoolJordie) February 29, 2016

Leo DiCaprio looking amazing tonight. Hope he finally wins! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/CDNDUfjoGU

— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) February 29, 2016

Come on @TotalBeauty
There are only a few of us there smh
Sorry @WhoopiGoldberg #screenshot pic.twitter.com/HYjdCVTdyI

— Holly Robinson Peete (@hollyrpeete) February 29, 2016

How to identify @Oprah pic.twitter.com/pNR6ED1ZPm

— Mashable (@mashable) February 29, 2016

Total Beauty stopped tweeting for some time after the mix-up, presumably to brainstorm the right apology: 

We’d like to apologize to Oprah and Whoopi, as well as everyone we’ve offended. It was our error, and there are no excuses. We’re sorry.

— Total Beauty (@TotalBeauty) February 29, 2016

SMDH. 

 

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