Within the Miss family, Geneviève de Fontenay didn't just make friends. It must be said that the lady in the hat does not have the reputation of being a tender … She never hesitates to say what she thinks loud and clear. The former patron of the Misses is not afraid to pull up the straps of Emmanuel Macron or even push hard against the attempts to evolve the beauty pageant. This is one of the many reasons for his long-standing rivalry with Sylvie Tellier. The current director of the committee swears that Geneviève de Fontenay "didn't want her ” when she was elected in 2002. And if the quarrels between the two women continue to generate a lot of ink, there is another Miss France who does not hesitate to criticize the octogenarian openly: Nathalie Marquay.
“She was like my second mother, but she gave me too many cheap shots ”
The one that was sacred in 1987 never hid that Geneviève de Fontenay had it "very disappointed ” by his behavior. Nathalie Marquay criticizes in particular the lady with the monochrome outfits for having said "crap ” about her in the press, never visiting her in hospital when she was battling leukemia, or even wanting to "fit it ” with a politician who harassed her during her year of reign … Accusations which clearly “injured" the main one concerned. But Friday, December 11, 2020, in Do not touch My TV, the wife of Jean-Pierre Pernaut revealed another low blow that Geneviève de Fontenay would have done to him. Known for not mince words, Nathalie Marquay said: “There's a terrible thing that I still want to say on the air … She sold my wedding invitation! " A revelation which caused the amazement of the chroniclers present on the set of C8.
The one who married the (soon to be) presenter of the JT of TF1 in 2007 is then explained: "I hadn't invited her, because we were in disagreement. She begged me, I told her no. " But Nathalie Marquay had however invited a close friend of Geneviève de Fontenay to the ceremony. "I knew she had stolen my wedding invitation from her girlfriend's house, and strangely, the next day it was posted on France Sunday… ”, she then says. A bastard that she cannot forgive him. Tired of being criticized for her lack of support for the one who presented her with her crown, Miss France 1987 said: "I'm sick of people telling me I'm not nice to Madame de Fontenay. Yes, I thanked her enough, she was like my second mother, but she gave me too many low blows. And there are many things that I pass that I cannot say on the air ", Nathalie Marquay finally concludes.
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