the 2020 competition will be chaired by Iris Mittenaere, ex-Miss Universe

This year, the famous Miss France beauty pageant, which turns 100, will be chaired by Iris Mittenaere, Miss France 2015 and Miss Universe the following year. The jury will be made up exclusively of former competition winners.

He returns every year in winter: on December 19, 2020 will be held the Miss France competition, at Puy du Fou this time. New: the jury will be chaired exclusively by former Miss. The president is Iris Mittenaere, who was also Miss Universe. The young woman, initially a dental student, then pursued a career as a TV host.

What about the traditional preparation trip? Covid requires, it will be in mainland France, in a setting for the less royal. In fact, the candidates will be accommodated at the Trianon Palace hotel in Versailles. A nice warm-up to represent an image of France abroad. Another novelty for 2020: the presence of a Miss from Wallis and Futuna, a territory absent from the competition since 2004.

Miss France, a competition that still needs to be modernized

Like every year, the candidates will have to answer a general culture test, and defend the societal causes that are close to their hearts before the jury. In 100 years, the competition has evolved a lot. Indeed, originally, its creator said: "The interest is twofold. First, by putting physical splendor in the competition, one forces it to show itself. Then, the choice of the majority will indicate the instinctive type of a nation". Over the years, the contest has come to emphasize their personal commitments more, and to be more inclusive regarding their identity.

Today, a jury composed entirely of former Misses will sit. What to establish the legitimacy of the jurors. But also, to evade criticisms made in previous years. Indeed, some viewers had been shocked to see men evolving far from the field of modeling choose the national beauty queen. Last year, for example, television host Denis Brogniart was on the jury. He had also refuted the futility of the competition: "Miss France is a very special alchemy: confidence and overall ease, physical, intellectual, emotional ease, that's what makes the difference, I think, in a competition like that".

However, criticism remains about the admission criteria for the competition, which regularly provokes controversy over questions of sexism, grossophobia or transphobia. The rules being: "be of French nationality, be under 25, measure at least 1m70, have a clean criminal record, not be tattooed or pierced, not have children, nor be married, civil union, divorced or widowed or never have had cosmetic surgery. "

Missions: Graduated in political science, Mathilde is an expert in subjects related to women's rights and health. Addicted to Instagram and Twitter, never stingy with a good meme.

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