The Miss France press conference turned into a settling of scores between Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Sylvie Tellier, reports “Le Parisien”.
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VSLike every year, the Miss France society organized a press conference on Friday with the thirty regional misses, two days before going to Guadeloupe for their training trip. Less than a month before the election, scheduled for December 17, honorary president Sylvie Tellier and the new patron of the competition, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, have highlighted the tensions that exist between them, reports The Parisian. For their first joint speech, a journalist asked them if they were “angry”. The spades are then chained between the two women.
“Yes, I have my 9 mm under the table! jokes Sylvie Tellier, excluded from the organization of Miss France. “I made the choice to leave Miss France. Alexia takes over my duties, she doesn’t like me saying it, so I like saying it. I will remain a Miss France all my life, ”she replies to the journalist. A new question concerning the use of feminist associations and the evolution of the rules of Miss France is addressed to Alexia Laroche-Joubert, in particular on the authorization now for participants to be mothers. “There was no membership of Sylvie, but it was part of my commitments… I’m not going to say ‘feminist’, because that would mean that Sylvie is not,” she asserts.
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“I voluntarily applied a reservation to myself on these developments but… I was Miss France, I lived through the program for seventeen years and I am a mother and being a Miss is not compatible with being a mother. », interrupts Sylvie Tellier. “For me, it’s not because you’re wearing a scarf that you can’t have a private life,” replies the current organizer.
After several exchanges on the same tone, the atmosphere becomes even heavier when the question of gender is addressed. “We had a candidate who had made a sex change,” said Alexia Laroche-Joubert, before being cut again. “Oh no, be careful Alexia, it’s a change in the marital status. The organizer gets annoyed: “Thank you, Sylvie, for taking me back, it’s too kind of you to correct me. »
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Sylvie Tellier “has never worked on the show”
The tension already seems to be at its peak, until a reporter asks about the content of the December 17 broadcast. “Sylvie worked on the Miss France organization, she never worked on the show, she never produced it. This statement was enough to put the former Miss France out of it. ” Sorry ? Me ? I didn’t work on this show? I can’t let you say that. I worked on this show for seventeen years! she defends herself.
“But you weren’t working on the production of the show. Excuse me if I offended you”, nuance Alexia Laroche-Joubert. “Yes, you upset me, yes, you have to have some consideration for all the work done over seventeen years,” exasperated Sylvie Tellier, a few minutes before this press conference came to an end, under the dumbfounded looks of those who attended.