At 34 years old, Angélique Angarni-Filopon is the oldest Miss France. A small revolution for the famous beauty contest, which, for the first time this year, lifted all age limits. “In 2011, a 20-year-old woman finished first runner-up in the Miss Martinique competition. Today, it is this same young woman of 34 years who stands before you to once again represent Martinique, its diaspora as well as all the women who were told one day that it was too late” , declared Angélique Angarni-Filopon, a flight attendant until then.
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If the new rules of the Miss France committee allowed the Martinique woman to be crowned, those of the Miss World competition are still a little retrograde. It is specified that the age of the participants must be between 18 and 27 years old, which rules out Miss France 2025. Her first runner-up, Sabah AibMiss Nord-pas-de-Calais, aged 18, says she is ready to take on the challenge. “If she (Angélique Angarni-Filopon) doesn’t go and she agrees, I will try my luck,” she confided to The Voice of the North.
For the Miss Universe competition, it’s different again. Angélique Angarni-Filopon will be able to represent France during the 74th edition of the competition if she wishes. Since the takeover of the company that manages its organization, women over 28 can claim the title of beauty queen, “just like married women, divorced women, mothers and transgender women”, specifies 20 Minutes. She could thus succeed Iris Mittenaere, former Miss Nord-pas-de-Calais, crowned in 2016.
The Netherlands says stop
If in France the rules of the Miss competition are relaxed, in other countries, the competition stops definitively. Indeed, the Netherlands decided to end this beauty pageant after the organizers declared that it was time for a change, wishing to inspire young women in another way. A decision that comes just over a year after the pageant judges crowned its first-ever transgender woman, Rikkie Kollé.
“After years of history full of glamour, talent and inspiration, Miss Netherlands says goodbye to the name that has found its way into the hearts of many. But this is not the end, it is a new beginning. The world is changing and we are changing with it,” said an official statement.
