Sometimes everything changes in a second. This Friday, November 22, the thirty Miss France candidates on a preparation trip to Ivory Coast smile at the punchlines of Diane Leyre, beauty queen 2022, who delivers a masterclass on the art of speech in front of the jury and viewers in the evening of the election. The ten regional winners who take part in the exercise, on the terrace of the monumental Sofitel in Abidjan, deliver speeches in a somewhat repetitive manner.
Diane Leyre asks Lilou Emeline-Artuso, Miss Côte d'Azur, to embody her words a little more. Suddenly, she lets go, recalls her childhood and adolescence – “My shyness got to me” – and bursts into tears. Moment of truth, suddenly public intimacy. Everyone comforts her and other candidates shed their tears. The Miss Riviera takes time to regain her senses. She snapped, exposed herself, but broke the armor. Being Miss is also a meeting with yourself. A path that Lilou Emeline-Artuso resolutely takes.
For her, it's a long journey. The first, even. “My passport was created for Miss France, for this trip,” she told us a few days earlier, in Abidjan. Apart from a getaway to England, the 22-year-old young woman, a master's student in digital marketing, has hardly left her hometown of Antibes. Even if for holidays as for everyday life, it wasn't bad: “The sea five minutes away, the mountains twenty minutes away,” she smiles. But his parents work even more in the summer, his mother in a hotel, his father as a taxi driver. Make vacations easier for others.
This blonde beauty, very noted among the candidates, princess in the land of the beautiful, dreams of becoming a fashion and cosmetics project manager, developing a marketing strategy “from A to Z”. The Ivory Coast, this first foray very far from its bases, left its mark: “We must avoid complaining! We are very lucky in France, there are many good things. We often forget everything we have. It’s the human aspect, the personal transformation that interests me: belonging to French people, that’s what Miss France is.”
What would scare him the most on the evening of December 14, on the Futuroscope stage and live on TF 1? “To be sick, to have a fever. » This has happened to several people. The speech, “it needs to be worked on, it’s a great exercise,” she told us that evening. Since meeting Diane Leyre, she also knows that you have to give a lot and even more, while controlling yourself. Now, Lilou Emeline-Artuso is ready for it.
