While live-tweeting the Emmys red carpet arrivals, the Television Academy's official account confused Emmy-winning reality show host RuPaul with Emmy-winning musical director Rickey Minor.
...RuPaul
Naturally people noticed.
Omg the Television Academy think this is RuPaul. How fucking embarrassing. https://t.co/ayRz7xJIFq
@TelevisionAcad @RuPaul @RuPaulsDragRace THAT IS RICKEY MINOR jesus h christ
@TelevisionAcad @RuPaul @RuPaulsDragRace sashay away with this nonsense
The Academy soon deleted the tweet and corrected their mistake.
Shante, you stay, @RuPaul! @RuPaulsDragRace is nominated for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program! #Emmys
BuzzFeed News reached out to the Television Academy for a comment.
Last year, the Academy's Twitter mistook Terrence Howard for Cuba Gooding Jr., but corrected it as well.
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