On June 14, Guillaume Pley received Sylvie Tellier on the set of the show Legend, broadcast on YouTube. The opportunity for the former director of the Miss France committee to discuss the release of her autobiography, Crown and Prejudice. A book in which Sylvie Tellier discusses her journey within the Miss France organization.
During the interview Sylvie Tellier notably returned to her quarrel with Alicia Aylies, during the Miss Universe competition. Indeed, newly elected Miss France 2017, the young woman, just 18 years old, accompanied Sylvie during the famous competition which took place in Manila that year… “ Alicia knew how to speak English, but she told me that she didn’t have the comfort she would have liked to do an interview in English. So she only asks me one thing, which is not to make her do an interview in English » says Sylvie Tellier.
Sylvie Tellier: “I wasn’t cool.”
No luck for the young Miss, because this edition is the one which crowned Iris Mittenaere grand winner of Miss Universe, to the great happiness of Sylvie Tellier. “ We’re live on CNN, and Alicia is going to enter the competition next year, and I see this as an opportunity to introduce her, I’m euphoric because we’ve just won and my God, I pass the word » says the former director of Miss France, who does exactly the opposite of what Alicia asked her beforehand.
“There I see a flash in Alicia’s eyes, and I realized… She was mad at me » deplores Sylvie Tellier before making her mea culpa “ And she is right! I told myself that I wasn’t being cool, because she had only asked me one thing!… And I put both feet in the problem. But it wasn’t malicious on my part » specifies Sylvie who assures that she only saw an opportunity for her protégé.
