At the end of November, during the preparatory trip for the 30 candidates to succeed Eve Gilles, Marine Futol, 18, stuck a thick fish bone in her heel, which disabled her for a few days. On the eve of the ceremony, the head of his committee gives us his news.
From our special correspondent, at Futuroscope, near Poitiers,
Will Reunion be represented this Saturday evening on TF1 during the ceremony Miss France ? This is the question that many have been asking since the injury of its representative, during the preparatory trip of the thirty candidates to Ivory Coast. In the middle of the stay, on a beach, Marine Futol 18, accidentally stuck a fishbone in the heel of his foot. Aziz Patelthe director of the Miss Réunion committee, whom we met during rehearsals for the ceremony Friday evening at Futuroscope, gives us his news.
«Miss Reunion is doing much betterhe warns straight away. It's true that for a week, in Ivory Coast, she was not able to participate in the activities. But in Poitiers, two or three days after his arrival, the stitches were removed. Gradually, she gained confidence with her foot without forcing too much. Now it's okay. For a week, she has been doing all the choreographies perfectly, wearing 12 centimeter heels.s,” he rejoices. Indeed, during the filming of the regional picture, the young woman wears pumps. In the twist/60s scene a few minutes later, she puts on thigh-high boots with stiletto heels. And dance with ease.
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Aziz Patel was still worried by the injury of his protégé in Ivory Coast. “We were afraid. We didn't really know how it was going to go. She went to the hospital, she was operated on under local anesthesia on her foot. But the Miss France company quickly reassured us”this former newspaper director tells us. For a few days, Marine Futol wore crutches to prevent her foot from touching the ground. A constraint which prevented her from following the catwalk lessons given by Maëva Coucke, Miss France 2018. “But she already parades very well, she had already been trained at Reunion», nuanced by Aziz Patel. «Apart from that, she participated in other activities with her classmates such as the gala evening. She told me that she even danced on crutches, with children !”, he continues.
Miss Réunion is conquering, motivated and persevering
Aziz Patel, director of the Miss Reunion committee
At the regional delegates' dinner Thursday evening, Marine Futol was in fine form. “She has a very good state of mind, she is conquering, always motivated and perseveringdescribes Aziz Patel. I'm confident even though you know, you never know what might happen“. And to add: “The objective is of course the crown, even if we know that there is competition and competition. We are first aiming for the Top 15 and then the Top 5 which would obviously be very satisfactory».
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Friday, on the set of “Buzz TV”, Frédéric Gilbert, the President and CEO of Miss France, told us in detail about Miss Réunion's accident during the trip. “ I don't know how she did it, and yet there I was, she tucked the edge into her heel, not horizontally but vertically. It was necessary to cut, remove the edge, make stitches etc. There are activities that she was not able to do but it is mainly that you are in 12 cm heels on the prime and she unfortunately does a lot of repetitions without heels”he explained.
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