The big ceremony is for Saturday evening, but the winner of Miss France 2023 is already very likely to appear in one of the magazines. Each year, a publication shows the face of Miss France even before her coronation…
They are four, smiling, in sparkling red suits. Télé Magazine, the very first TV weekly in history, which arrived in French living rooms in 1955, before Télé 7 Jours and other Télé Loisirs, is displaying, as every year, four female faces on its cover this week, to illustrate its gallery of portraits of the 30 candidates for Miss France 2023 on the inside pages.
While the election was set for this Saturday, December 17 and will be broadcast on TF1 from 9 p.m., the publication may have already shown the big winner on this front page. Because one of these four misses is most likely the one who will win the big contest. For years, TV Magazine indeed achieves the feat of featuring the future Miss France on this traditional cover dedicated to the event.
A wise selection of misses
The consistency of the magazine in its predictions has been noted by several users from Twitter, a few days before the Miss France 2023 competition. Supporting photos, we discover that this 100% paper publication, without declination on the Internet, thus displayed the face of Diane Leyre last year in its edition from December 11 to 17. Miss Ile-de-France, who then posed alongside Miss Cote d’Azur, Miss Alsace and Miss Rhône-Alpes, won the coronation almost a week after the release of the magazine.
The previous year, Miss Provence, Miss Languedoc and Miss Côte d’Azur shared the cover of Télé Magazine with Miss Normandie behind this title that could not be clearer: “Our favorites”. But Miss Normandy was called that year Amandine Petit and it is she who will also be crowned a few days later. For Miss France 2020, Télé Magazine bet on Miss Martinique, Miss Provence and Miss Bourgogne, but it is ultimately Miss Guadeloupe Clémence Botino who will win. Fortunately the previous year, the prognosis was still good: Miss Tahiti, a certain Vaimalama Chaves, appeared in one with Miss Franche-Comté and Miss Languedoc. It is she who will win the crown for the 2019 vintage.
Bad prediction for Iris Mittenaere
The other covers unearthed on Twitter are in keeping: for the election of Miss France 2018, Maëva Coucke, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, was in front of Miss Réunion and Miss Ile-de-France. At the end of 2016, Alicia Aylies, Miss Guyana and future Miss France 2017, also featured prominently on the cover. Huge failure on the other hand the previous year, with the absence on the front page of the magazine of Iris Mittenaere, future Miss France and Miss Universe. But the count resumes at the end of 2014 with Camille Cerf well highlighted in the photo and in 2013 with Flora Coquerel.
Will Télé Magazine still have the vista for the election of Miss France 2023? On the cover of its edition from December 17 to 23, 2022 (see screenshot above), the editorial staff chose Bérénice Legendre (Miss Picardie), Flavie Barla (Miss Cote d’Azur), Agathe Cauet (Miss Nord- Pas-de-Calais) and Indria Ampiot (Miss Guadeloupe) to illustrate her “portraits of the 30 candidates”. The four are regularly cited among the potential winners, but a surprise is still possible…
Before the Miss France 2023 election, almost all the media go there with their prognosis. And the favorites are ultimately few. Paris-Match thus cites Miss Guadeloupe, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Miss Picardie in its top 3. Ditto for TF1, which estimates that Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Guadeloupe, Roussillon, Lorraine or even Aquitaine could stand out during the Miss France evening on Saturday December 17. At Linternaute.com, the editorial staff regularly cites Miss Lorraine, Miss Guadeloupe, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais or Miss Côte d’Azur in its top 5. Finally, the regional dailies generally rely on their representatives, the competition of Miss France being also a great moment of chauvinism each year.