Geneviève de Fontenay takes on Sylvie Tellier and calls for a boycott of the centenary of Miss France: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

Between her legendary hat and her monochrome outfits, Geneviève de Fontenay is recognizable among a thousand. But one thing that sets her apart even more is her limitless candor. Indeed, the former president of the Miss France committee is well known for not having her tongue in her pocket. She did not hesitate to express her often controversial positions, especially when she supported the Manif pour Tous. More recently, she was against the election of a transgender Miss France and had a heavy rant against Sylvie Tellier. Because between Geneviève de Fontenay and her successor, it was never great love. The two women were said to have reconciled in 2017, before falling out again. Then, the lady in the hat had buried the hatchet and even supported her rival after the 2019 election. However, each time, a controversy comes to redistribute the cards.

Sylvie Tellier “dishonest”?

This time it’s about centenary of the Miss France competition, which will be celebrated in 2020. An event that Sylvie Tellier wishes to celebrate as it should… to the chagrin of Geneviève de Fontenay. The ex-director was invited Thursday June 25, 2020 on the set of The moment of luxury, on Non Stop People. And she did not hesitate to tackle her successor violently. “She wants to take over the centenary of Miss France, she lamented facing Jordan de Luxe. "I had contact with her, I talked to her. But there she abuses. She asked Sonia (Rolland, Miss France 2000, editor's note.) to come to TF1 for the centenary, and Sonia said "never in life" "she continues.

Very rebound against Sylvie Tellier, Geneviève de Fontenay accuses her of trying to "recover all Miss France ”. Behavior that she will go so far as to call "dishonest. The octogenarian then addressed all of the former beauty queens, praying to them to “refrain " to go to this ceremony."What Sylvie wants is to highlight as much as possible, well no ”, she hammered. For her, it’s a betrayal: “I think of Louis de Fontenay, he was the one who deserved to celebrate the centenary. ” Louis Poirot (dit de Fontenay) was indeed president of the Miss France committee from 1956 until his death in 1981. The two spouses also met in the early 1950s, when he was the organizer of the competition . They created the committee together in 1954, with Guy Levy (dit Rinaldo).

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