The 94th edition of Miss France is being held this Saturday, December 16 at the Zénith in Dijon. Fifteen candidates were eliminated before the election. Follow the competition live.
8:50 p.m. – Miss France 2024 will be showered with gifts, which ones?
The one who will be elected Miss France 2024 this evening certainly wins the glory of the title, but also other advantages and several gifts. First of all, she will have a staff apartment in Paris made available throughout her year of reign, a salary, but also a Toyota Yaris Cross Audace, designed entirely in France. She will also receive other gifts that have not been revealed at this time. Last year, the winner also received a trip for two people to Paris/Pointe à Pitre in business class, a stay of seven days and six nights in Guadeloupe for two people, a Macbook Pro computer, a Samsung television, monsters, clothing, care, makeup and hairdresser. Just that !
20:39 – TF1 and the production company of Miss France condemned this week
A few days before the election in Dijon, two former Misses won their case against the TF1 group and the production company Endemol, responsible for Miss France, in court. The Lille judicial court ordered them to pay 20,000 euros each to Carla Bonesso, Miss Aquitaine 2018, and Manon Jean-Mistral, who represented Corsica in 2018. In total, each of the plaintiffs received 40,000 euros. The reasons for this legal confrontation? On December 15, 2018, the two candidates were filmed topless while they were changing backstage. The images were briefly seen during the prime. Two days later, Sylvie Tellier recognized “a big hiccup” and apologized to the production and the candidates. The two beauty queens later appeared on BFM TV and TPMP, deploring that these images “destroyed” their image. “A camera has nothing to do behind the scenes,” assured Miss Aquitaine 2018.
20:31 – The schedule for the Miss France 2024 election
The Miss France beauty contest offers a similar structure each year. At 9:10 p.m., TF1 will present the 30 candidates for the national title. Several paintings, on the theme of the “Music Box”, will liven up the evening. Around 10:30 p.m., half of the candidates will be eliminated, 15 others will continue the adventure. After two tables, the Top 5 will be determined based on the votes of the jury and the public. They will scroll on a single board. Finally, the new beauty queen, Miss France 2024 will be crowned around 12:30 a.m., if there is not too much delay.
20:22 – What is the purpose of the jury for the Miss France 2024 evening?
If the jury of the Miss France evening does not nominate the 15 finalists of the competition, what is the point? Made up only of personalities well known to the public, this jury is only present this Saturday, December 16, 2023. Like the public, it participates in the votes in the second part of the evening. It thus represents 50% of the final votes. And sometimes the jury’s vote can vary significantly from that of the public. Its impact is therefore significant on the final result!
20:10 – What is the theme of the Miss France 2024 election? 8:20 p.m.
Miss France is celebrating its 94th edition this year. The theme of the evening is already known since it was revealed during a press conference last November. The 30 candidates will parade on the theme of “The Miss Music Box”. On the program: paintings from the 1980s, salsa, rock, as well as the presence of dancers from the Moulin Rouge.
20:01 – If this rule had not been removed, several candidates would not parade this year
Several rules governed Miss France for many years and were finally abolished in 2022. A boon for certain candidates this year: several are now over 25 years old, which is permitted thanks to the abolition of the age limit. age in force until last year. If this rule still existed, several Misses could have not participated this year: Miss Alsace (27 years old), Miss Lorraine (26 years old), Miss Pays de la Loire (26 years old) and Miss Île-de-France (27 years old) . If candidates can now be of all ages, provided they are of age during the year, we notice in fact that none is over 30 years old.
19:51 – When will the 15 Miss France finalists be known?
If the fate of the 15 eliminated Miss France 2024 candidates is already sealed, we will not know the names of the finalists right away. The identity of the candidates who will be submitted to the public vote will be revealed this Saturday evening, during the evening celebrating the beauty contest. It is around 11 p.m. that the names of the 15 finalists will be known, and viewers will be able to vote for their favorite candidate.
19:40 – Towards the end of Jean-Pierre Foucault at the presentation of Miss France?
Every year, the presence of Jean-Pierre Foucault in the animation of Miss France is called into question. The 76-year-old host has in fact moved away from television sets and only reappears on screen for the Miss France election and the Loto and Euromillions drawing. Will this 2024 edition be the last? This does not seem to be the case, since the host still said on the microphone of C à vous, Wednesday evening, that his only condition for him to stop was the election of Miss Provence. “Next year, I will celebrate my thirtieth and I announce that in 20 years, I will celebrate my fiftieth”! Sylvie Tellier, however, made it known that if she was asked to host the competition, she “would say yes”.
19:27 – On the contrary, these regions have never been elected Miss France
If certain regions are lucky and victorious in the Miss France election, others are much less so historically. Auvergne, Champagne-Ardenne, Limousin, Martinique, Mayotte, or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Saint-Martin-Saint-Barthélémy (the last two are absent from the competition this year) have never before been elected.
19:14 – Which region has won the most Miss France since the creation of the competition?
Since the creation of the competition, certain regions have often been crowned, while others have never been crowned Miss France. Île-de-France was most often victorious, with 16 Miss Ile-de-France elected. Diane Leyre is the latest. The other most successful regions are Aquitaine (10 victories), and the Grand-Est (also 10 victories). It is then Miss Normandie (7 victories) who follows.
19:03 – How is the relationship between Jean-Pierre Foucault and Cindy Fabre?
After several years working with Sylvie Tellier, Jean-Pierre Foucault must now deal with a new election director, Coindy Fabre. In an interview with Le Parisien last year, Jean-Pierre Foucault spoke of his relationship with Cindy Fabre, who officially replaced Sylvie Tellier in 2023. He then indicated that he got along “very well” with her: “She m ‘gave the most beautiful, magnificent, very rare and luxurious gift at the moment: a jar of Dijon mustard where she lives!’, he added.
18:45 – Instagram already has its favorites to win Miss France
If we rely on popularity on social networks, it is Miss Côté d’Azur (more than 100,000 subscribers on Instagram), Miss Île-de-France (more than 92,000 subscribers) and Miss Guadeloupe (58 000 subscribers) who are currently in the lead. However, this does not necessarily mean victory on the big night even if, last year, the top 5 also had the most subscribers on Instagram before the election.
18:30 – Who are the favorites to win Miss France this year?
This year, it was particularly complicated to designate favorites for the title. According to the journalists present at the preparation trip to Guyana in November, it was difficult to know which candidates could claim a place in the top 15 or in the top 5. None seemed to have particularly distinguished themselves during the preparation trip, this which makes making predictions more difficult than usual. However, names are more regularly cited, such as those of Miss Côte d’Azur, Miss Guyana, Miss Pays de la Loire or even Miss Guadeloupe and Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
18:14 – Half of the Misses are already eliminated before the start of the election
This evening from 9:10 p.m., there will be 30 of them showing live on TF1. But in reality, fifteen candidates already eliminated before the show even begins. Their fate was decided three days earlier, on December 13, when they were presented to a jury of experts who decided, in the greatest secrecy, the 15 finalists who will continue the adventure. However, viewers will have the opportunity to discover them all on stage in Dijon. The fifteen pre-selected will be revealed around 10:30 p.m., unless there is a delay in the program’s usual schedule.
18:00 – Miss Alsace, valedictorian in the general knowledge test
The Miss France general knowledge test was particularly difficult this year. The candidates obtained an average score of 30/60, which is low compared to other editions. The valedictorian is Miss Alsace, who obtained the best score with 42.5/60. Miss Limousin and Miss Roussillon were second, with 40/60. Miss Champagne-Ardenne occupies third place, with 37/60.