“When the age limit was lifted, I decided to try my luck again,” said Angélique Angarni-Filopon, a flight attendant in the city, at a press conference. In 2011, she was elected first runner-up to Miss Martinique.
“No expiration date”
“The dream has not left me. At 34, I have a different vision of life and I want to be an inspiring woman on a large scale. I prove that there is no expiration date for women who dream of becoming Miss France,” she added.
The Miss France 2025 election will take place on Saturday at Futuroscope in Poitiers (Vienna), live on TF1, which is achieving one of its best audiences of the year with this competition. According to Médiamétrie, the last election recorded a peak of 9.1 million viewers, with an average of just over 7 million (57.9% audience share).
Thirty regional “beauty queens” aged 18 to 34 are in the running to succeed Ève Gilles, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2023, crowned Miss France 2024.
Chaired this year by the singer Sylvie Vartan, the once again 100% female jury brings together the Olympic champion Marie-José Pérec, the host and stylist Cristina Cordula, the dancer Fauve Hautot, the comedian Nawell Madani, the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and the ex-Miss France Flora Coquerel.
Saturday evening, the miss finalists will be decided 50/50 by TF1 viewers and the jury. In the event of a tie, the public will have the last word.
Enlisted for the thirtieth consecutive time, the unmistakable Jean-Pierre Foucault, 77 years old, will present the ceremony which will have the theme “the grand ball of Misses”, with around ten scenes from twist to tango to country , disco and classical dance.
For the first time, TF1 will broadcast after a documentary on “the magic behind the scenes” of the Miss France election, announced Frédéric Gilbert, producer of the ceremony for fifteen years and president of the Miss France Society whose director is Cindy Fabre, Miss France 2005.
Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, announces that she suffers from a rare disease: “I know how to live with it very well”
“Discriminatory recruitment”
Among the 30 candidates who will vie for the Miss France crown, Manon Le Maou, 28 years old, Miss Franche-Comté 2024, non-commissioned gendarme, Romane Agostinho, 27 years old, Miss Auvergne, animal osteopath, and Mélissa Atta Bessiom, 25 years old, Miss Pays-de-la-Loire, artificial intelligence project manager in a French luxury group.
“Once again, the patriarchy uses women to promote an extremely lucrative television show. And therefore, it is a form of exploitation of women, of their bodies, while conveying an extremely sexist image of the women presented like women objects and vases,” Aliénor Laurent, spokesperson for the Osez le feminisme! association, told AFP.
Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, announces that she suffers from a rare disease: “I know how to live with it very well”
The latest developments in the Miss France regulations appear as “window dressing” to the feminist association: “the reality is that there are still no mothers or women who have not the model size. Putting women on parade in swimsuits or dressed up is only to judge them on beauty criteria,” added Ms. Laurent.
Last year, Dare to Feminism! launched an industrial tribunal action to obtain a real employment contract for the candidates and denounce “the discriminatory recruitment process”.
