Miss Martinique 2024, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, was elected Miss France 2025 on Saturday evening on TF1, live from Futuroscope in Poitiers. The 34-year-old flight attendant, the oldest candidate in the history of the competition, is the first thirty-year-old to win the title.
‘It is an honor to stand before you. When I won the Miss Martinique competition, I told the people of Martinique that we were going to do it together. And we did it together! Thank you!’, the new beauty queen said in tears. She succeeds Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024 and Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2023.
The runners-up for Miss France 2025 are respectively Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2024, Sabah Aïb, 18 years old, Miss Corsica 2024, Stella Vangioni, 27 years old, Miss Guadeloupe 2024, Moïra André, 27 years old and Miss Côte d’Azur 2024 , Lilou Emeline-Artuso, 21 years old.
While the Netherlands decided to scuttle their beauty contest believing that it was ‘out of those times’, 30 candidates aged 18 to 34 took part in the final of the Miss France 2025 contest presented for the 30th time by the undeniable Jean-Pierre Foucault.
Miss Martinique in 2011
Angélique Angarni-Filopon had already run for the Miss Martinique election in 2011. She decided to run again on the occasion of the modernization of the competition, which was banned for years for those over 24.
‘In 2011, a young woman aged 20 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. , said Miss France 2025, introducing herself to the jury and the viewers, during the ceremony.
Chaired this year by the singer Sylvie Vartan, the Miss France 2025 jury, again 100% female, was notably composed of the Olympic champion Marie-José Pérec and the host and stylist Cristina Cordula.
Miss France 2025 becomes, for the year of her reign, an employee of the Miss France company ‘with a senior executive salary’, the enjoyment of an apartment in Paris and numerous gifts offered by sponsors.
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