Sylvie Tellier officially leaves the Miss France organization during the 2023 edition, this Saturday December 17 in Châteauroux. While tensions were reported behind the scenes, the former Miss gave a moving speech during the ceremony.
“This year marks the beginning of a new professional adventure for me.” Sylvie Tellier spoke this Saturday evening, during the 93rd Miss France election. The last for her in management after 17 years of good and loyal service. On the verge of tears, the former Miss France 2001 herself wished “a lot of success” to Alexia Larroche-Joubert and Cindy Fabre who will take over as a pair. She also thanked “strongly” Geneviève De Fontenay, with whom she nevertheless broke up loudly a few years ago, “because I know that she is watching us, I learned a lot from her”.
Sylvie Tellier returned in this speech, unusual in the middle of the ceremony, to her role during all these years and thanked her entire team present on stage. “Directing Miss France is more than a job. It’s a passion that I have been able to share with them. I thank all the Miss France that I have been able to accompany, they are the pride of the organization and I have an immense tenderness for each one.” After greeting the French people she was able to meet during her many trips, she thanked Jean-Pierre Foucault, by her side, for his “benevolence” towards her during all these years and expressed “a moved thought for Jean -Pierre Pernaut and his family”, the deceased former journalist who “helped so much to promote this competition”.
Then came the inevitable sequence on his loved ones, the most moving. “To finish – and this will be the most difficult – I would like to speak to my family. They are all here in the room this evening for the first time”, began Sylvie Tellier almost at the break. “Directing Miss France required a lot of sacrifices and you have always supported me. You have allowed me to be an accomplished daughter, woman, mother. And who knows, maybe it’s me who will be one day here in your place to encourage my daughter Margaux in this magnificent Miss France adventure”.
The conclusion, in the live of the public, will be very difficult to pronounce for the former boss of the house: “You know, the modest little girl that I was was certainly not predestined [coupée par les applaudissements et les cris du public elle va lui dire à qu’elle point elle l’aime] to lead this fine company of French heritage. So I say it to little French girls and boys: everything is possible in life, you just have to believe in yourself. Thank you very much, may the show continue!
Tensions behind the scenes
Sylvie Tellier announced last August to leave the organization in which she had worked for 17 years. Officially, she leaves to devote herself more to her entrepreneurial activities and turn a new page in her life. “I have projects in my head, I want to do a lot of things”, she detailed on Instagram. Sylvie Tellier officially passes the torch to Cindy Fabre during the Miss France 2023 election, this Saturday December 17, 2022 in Châteauroux.
But unofficially, tensions behind the scenes have been reported in recent months with Alexia Laroche-Joubert, president of the Miss France society. The presentation press conference for this year 2023 also degenerated when Alexia Laroche-Joubert let go that Sylvie Tellier “never worked on the show”, which angered the main interested party. Alexia Laroche Joubert later regretted a semantic error. “It is not because we do not agree that we are in tension”, however sweeps Sylvie Tellier with the Parisian.
Sylvie Tellier also admitted that the change in the rules for selecting candidates for Miss France (authorized mothers, tattoos, etc.) impacted her decision to leave: “I did not agree with the change rules (mothers allowed, as well as tattoos among others) and I took a slap at the beginning of the year with the death of Jean-Pierre Pernaut.He was part of my team and that was my guide. ” Anyway, Sylvie Tellier’s farewell to the Miss France organization promises to be very emotional this Saturday.