Alexia Laroche-Joubert settles her accounts with the dissatisfied Misses

“There were a lot of controversies. It is often the result of a few groups of neo-feminists who take a condescending look at a popular, convivial program and the enthusiasm it arouses. They take advantage of the media visibility of the competition to offer themselves a moment of buzz”, then declared Alexia Laroche Joubert, president of the Miss France committee, during a press conference on November 18, 2021. However, a few weeks after the association’s complaint Dare feminism at the prud’hommes, an employment contract had been established for the first in the history of the Misses.

This unprecedented employment contract remained ultra-confidential for a long time. On December 11, Alexia Laroche-Joubert clarified that the compensation offered to candidates was not “that of a senior executive”. According to the article of Parisian published on January 22, 2022, the salary of the candidates amounted to 84 euros per day, or 252 euros net in all. This amount, confirmed by the production of the program broadcast on TF1, includes the two days of rehearsals preceding the ceremony, at the Zénith de Caen.

“Miss France is a contest” and not a reality show

While many Misses are content with this bonus contract, hailed by the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, as progress “in terms of labor law”, some have denounced a derisory salary and not very representative of the investment requested. “We should already have a work contract from the preparatory trip. We record lots of sequences for the show, and we do photo shoots, sometimes from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s rare that we can stroll on the beach”, reacted one of the candidates to our colleagues from the Parisian. Other Miss have denounced “lack of sleep, food, daily physical and psychological load”.

Still in the columns of the daily, Alexia Laroche-Joubert replied that “Miss France is a contest” and that the employment contract put in place, the duration of which she does not wish to extend, is “already a great step forward”. She added that the Misses are “neither obliged to go to the preparatory trip” or “even to attend rehearsals”, even if it would be “shooting themselves in the foot”. For the new boss, changes made to this employment contract “does not correspond[rai]do not respect the values ​​of Miss France” and, if it were changed, “the motivations of the candidates would no longer be the same.” She therefore invites the dissatisfied Misses to “do Les Marseillais or Les Ch’tis”.