Disappeared this summer, Alain Delon had been one of the most emblematic jury presidents of the Miss France election. But no tribute is planned this evening on TF1 on the occasion of Miss France 2025.
He was named “lifetime” president of the Miss France jury in 2011 before leaving office only two years later. Alain Delon, who died at the age of 88 this summer, is the one who invented the phrase that has become cultMiss France is and will remain…“. While the Miss France 2025 election will be broadcast this Saturday, December 14, 2024 on TF1, will the Miss France company take advantage of this opportunity to pay tribute to the cult French actor? The answer is noas Frédéric Gilbert, president of the Miss France company and producer of the ceremony, justified Tele-Leisure.
Miss France 2025: why no tribute to Alain Delon is planned on TF1
“I wondered if we winked, but no“, he tells us. We remember that, last year, a moving painting paid tribute to Geneviève de Fontenay, the emblematic incarnation of this beauty contest for decades. “We cannot compare Geneviève de Fontenay and Alain Delonestimates Frédéric Gilbert. Geneviève is emblematic, she brought this competition to where it is today, even if it has been modernized a lot“. For his part, Jean-Pierre Foucault, who is presenting his 30th Miss France ceremony this evening, confides: “I have very good memories of him. He took this election very seriously“. And to observe: “Many tributes were paid to him on television when he died. She's an icon, a big name in French cinema, just like Mireille Darc, who was one of my best friends“.
Miss France: why Alain Delon left the life presidency of the jury
In his book Crowns and prejudices published last spring, Sylvie Tellier, former director of the competition, returned to the departure of Alain Delon from the Miss France jury in 2013. “After several controversial statements in which he expressed his support for the National Front, I must remind you in a press release: 'We ask the election jury, as well as the candidates themselves, not to state their political, religious and ideological color. Stung, Alain Delon relinquishes his duties as president of the jury“, recalled Sylvie Tellier. “Respecting the rules is a somewhat outdated value for many, not for me“, she wrote in her book, while deploring “a disappointment and an inestimable loss for the competition” with the departure of Alain Delon.
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