Beauty Website Thinks Whoopi Goldberg Is Oprah Winfrey on Oscars Red Carpet (Photo)

This probably isn’t going to help any of that #OscarsSoWhite tension

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This year is not the Oscars to confuse two prominent black women.

Beauty website Total Beauty mistook Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, tweeting: “We had no idea @Oprah was #tatted, and we love it. #Oscars.”

Under the Academy Award trophy emoji was a photo of “The View” host on the red carpet, showing off her shoulder tattoo in a strapless gown.

Here’s the gaffe:

The blunder didn’t go unnoticed by Oprah either, as her best friend Gayle King revealed.

“@Oprah & favorite daughter watching #Oscars & seeing @totalbeauty snafu! We all love @whoopigoldberg but we don’t all look alike Jeeeze!” she wrote on Instagram Sunday night.

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The company apologized shortly after it removed the tweet. Below is the mea cupla for what the site called “our error.”

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