And Miss France 2023, 93rd of the name, is… Indira Ampiot, 18-year-old student! Forty-eight minutes past midnight, Miss Guadeloupe was elected by the jury and the public of TF 1 ahead of Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who becomes its first runner-up. Miss Franche-Comté is second runner-up, while Miss Martinique and Miss Auvergne remained at the foot of the glittering podium. The Guadeloupean with the false airs of Rihanna succeeds Diane Leyre, Miss Île-de-France elected a year ago in Caen. “I am living a waking dream, I would like to thank the 29 other candidates, you have not deserved the girls”, reacted Indira Ampiot.
“What happiness for Guadeloupe! “Added the president of the jury, Francis Huster, who greeted” Miss Chance rather than Miss France “. The actor found that there was “a lot of generosity in the answers of the young candidates. I have the impression that all of them have had a chaotic journey and that they are reborn tonight. »
“Saturday night is good for fighting. The show began with this frenzied rock by Elton John sung by the thirty candidates for the Miss France 2023 election. But rest assured: the most followed competition in France always takes place with speckled foils and smiles. deployed on TF 1.
From the height of his 75 years, the indestructible Jean-Pierre Foucault was in great shape: “Châteauroux one day, Châteauroux always”, he says. History to recall that Miss France was held for the second time in the prefecture of Indre, five years after having crowned Maëva Coucke there. For his 28th election, the retired animator dared to do a great first: to dress up… We discovered him as Elton John playing “Your Song” on the piano but, with all due respect, under his huge glittery glasses, he looks like rather to Gilbert Montagné…
fighting women
The theme of the evening, like the Enfoirés a few years ago, was “the Misses make their cinema”. They avoided shipwreck on the opening table, “Titanic”, but not the incongruous by dancing in swimsuits to the music and images of “Amélie Poulain” and on “Happy Days” in a setting of mushrooms. evoking “Alice in Wonderland”. The “Rocketman Man” painting dedicated to Elton John and the one dedicated to superheroines, where one of the candidates arrives by air, were fortunately more inspired and energetic.
This latest staging resonated even with their self-portraits. Most of the candidates no longer highlight their beauty but their struggles…. and their intimate wounds. Miss Picardie, who lost her big brother this year and is fighting for road safety, Miss Poitou-Charentes, victim of violence in her childhood, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who had the vocation of nurse after having been operated on for an ovarian tumour, Miss Roussillon who suffered harassment…
This generation of women is also striking in its desire to show its feminism and its ambitions. Miss Guyana is an airplane pilot, Côte d’Azur is a future surgeon, Normandy a future commissioner, Limousin goes on raids to help the homeless, Rhône-Alpes wants to take her Miss France crown to the top of Mont Blanc… Fortunately that Burgundy put a little levity into the competition by evoking its passion for… the pompom twirling.
Sylvie Tellier passes the baton
“It’s the most difficult casting I’ve done in my life”, confessed to them the most famous agent and caster of French cinema, Dominique Besnehard, in the middle of a jury made up of the judoka and Olympic champion Clarisse Agbegnenou, by Kendji Girac, comedian Bérangère Krief (who replaced Camille Lellouche at the last moment) and Marine Lorphelin, Miss France 2013 who became a doctor. “My friends told me it was better to come with my wife,” said comedian and actor Arnaud Ducret.
It was also certainly the most difficult evening for Sylvie Tellier, who is handing over after more than fifteen years at the head of the Miss France committee. For her last broadcast, she made many thanks, to Jean-Pierre Foucault first and the late Jean-Pierre Pernaut, without forgetting to pay tribute to Geneviève de Fontenay, who taught her a lot. “The little girl I loved was not at all predestined to lead this company. I love you so much “she concluded, tremolos in her voice, before a small ovation from the public of Châteauroux. No spades sent to Alexia Laroche-Joubert, his successor, with whom relations were particularly strained. Saturday night is not always good for fighting.