Mainly known for having been the patroness of Miss France until 2010, Geneviève de Fontenay, who is now 90 years old, confided in Laurent Argelier on her daily life in the podcast LA Série.
A key figure in the Miss France election for several decadesGeneviève de Fontenay left the committee quite abruptly in 2010. Having then created the election of Miss Prestige national, the one that is more commonly nicknamed “the lady in the hat” has never missed an opportunity to criticize the Miss France pageant in the media since her ousting. Nourishing a great feeling of resentment against Sylvie Tellier, Geneviève de Fontenay had taken the habit of regularly attacking the one who had taken her place in the Miss France committee. This was once again the case on Saturday December 17, 2022, when the one who was elected Miss France in 2002 made her last appearance on TF1 during the election of Miss France 2023.
Guest of the podcast entitled LA Série Friday February 17, 2023, Geneviève de Fontenay, now 90 years old, revealed to host Laurent Ruquier why she no longer leaves her home near Saint-Cloud. “People know me, so whenever I’m outside, people want to take pictures with me. But I’ve done enough… And then, when I see all that is happening now in the streets, we take risks. Since I’m famous, I can come across morons: ‘Oh well, we’re going to do it, we’re going to take care of it’. I would be too scared“, explained the former president of the Miss France committee.
Geneviève de Fontenay: “In my life, I have never seen what we see today”
“Today’s society is very bad. In my life, I have never seen what we see today…“, underlined Geneviève de Fontenay, before launching, by way of conclusion: “Since I don’t go out anymore, it’s sure that I’ll die here“. For the record, the lady in the hat has regularly found herself on the front page of the news in recent years, in particular thanks to its various rants. When she wasn’t talking about her his visceral aversion to Sylvie Tellier, Geneviève de Fontenay created the buzz because of his very clear-cut positions, in particular about the anti-Covid vaccine. The former boss of Miss France has never been vaccinated.“It gets complicated with the health pass because my grandmother refuses to be vaccinated… We’ve tried everything, there’s nothing we can do, she won’t change her mind. She is stubborn“, revealed her granddaughter in September 2021 in Current wife.