Sunday December 15, 2024, shortly before 11 a.m., we will meet at the prestigious Lancaster hotel, a stone's throw from the Champs-Élysées. With less than an hour of sleep, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, elected Miss France 2025 the day before in front of six million viewers, discovers the splendid Marlène Dietrich suite where she will spend the next night. Suddenly tears flow. “I never thought one day I'd find myself in this kind of place.it”, she confides, supported by Cindy Fabre, the director of the competition. Dazzled by the 200 outfits made available to her for her first photo shoots – including that of Tele-Leisure of which she is on the cover of issue 2026, on newsstands this Monday, December 23 –, the one who defended the colors of Martinique impressed with her ease in front of the goal. A few hours earlier, on the train to Paris, this 1.83 m air hostess, aged 34 – a record in the history of the beauty contest – gave us her first impressions of the election which was held in Poitiers.
Angélique Angarni-Filopon, first thirty-year-old elected Miss France 2025: “I’ve dreamed of being Miss France since I was little”
Tele-Leisure : You were elected first runner-up to Miss Martinique in 2011 before trying your luck again this year at 34 thanks to the lifting of the age limit for candidates. It's a beautiful story!
Angélique Angarni-Filopon: Yes. I've dreamed of being Miss France since I was little. I almost tried the adventure again last yearbut out of professional conscience, I postponed the project until this year. It's destiny.
You are referring to your speech on the Miss France stage. When have you ever been told it was too late for you, outside of a beauty pageant?
Oh, many times! In love life, in work, in the need to change life… I have always heard this phrase. And I always detached myself from it.
Angélique Angarni-Filopon (Miss France 2025) talks about her love life
Is Miss France 2025 a heart to take?
You won't know! [Elle sourit.] I don't want to mix work and private life.
Do you think that you will be less “malleable” than a young Miss of 20 years old and will be able to say no more if proposals do not suit you?
I don't like the term “malleable” because it has a negative sound to it. But I adapt easily and I know how to tell when something suits me a little less, let's say. But always with kindness and respect.
The entire interview can be found in Tele-Leisure issue 2026, on newsstands this Monday, December 23.
