Miss France: "The candidates will have an employment contract", announces the producer Alexia Laroche-Joubert

The famous music of the show resounds in the small auditorium of TF 1. The countdown has started for the election of the new Miss France which will take place at the Zénith in Caen (Calvados) on December 11.

This Wednesday, the 29 regional elected officials fly from Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport to Reunion Island at the end of the afternoon.

“A carpet of Aladdin” towards the famous training trip according to Amandine Petit, the reigning beauty queen.

The long day began this Wednesday morning with a press conference in the bowels of the TF 1 tower, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), before a passage in the 13 hours of the Une.

In the auditorium lit in chiaroscuro, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the new captain of the competition and the production of the show sets the tone, offensive this year, especially against feminists who are once again attacking the event that they consider “sexist”.

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For the producer, “these controversies by neo-feminist groups are just buzz.

I wanted to meet them but it is not possible to discuss with them because they only want one thing: to kill the competition ”.

"Miss France is an opportunity to assert yourself"

Alexia Laroche-Joubert nevertheless hears the criticisms on the lack of modernity sometimes criticized in the competition.

“There may be discussions to be had on the legal term single.

On the tattoos, we were a little too restrictive too, but we have to discuss our questions with the committees as well.

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And the producer to announce a real change for this 2021 election. "The 29 misses will have employment contracts within the framework of the ceremony in Caen", announces Alexia Laroche-Joubert, specifying in passing: "If I am an autonomous woman today I also owe it to this competition because I worked on the program when I was younger.

Miss France is an opportunity to assert yourself.

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In support of this reasoning, the candidate from Auvergne, a doctor who left her office "to live this adventure" speaks in front of a few dozen journalists, often from the regions.

"I left my patients but I am happy to live this enchanting parenthesis", she assures, the navy blue scarf slung over her shoulder.

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"It's over the days of the Miss who want to save the world and save animals, especially their cats", laughs Jean-Pierre Foucault, the indestructible presenter of the very fit evening. Miss Picardie unwittingly hands him a pole. “My job is to take care of the physical condition of the firefighters,” she says. "And that of the animators? he answers tit for tat in front of a hilarious audience. I ask that, it's for Jean-Pierre Pernaut! I'm fine I'm very fit! "And to add a few seconds later:" It's been 25 years that I say to vote Miss Provence and it does not work! This year I will not say it. "

"The event of the year", as Rémi Faure describes it, the director of the flow programs of TF 1 now has a theme: musicals.

“We still want to accentuate the spectacle side, in particular with the opening table on the theme of the

with thirty gospel choristers, details Frédéric Gilbert, the artistic director.

There will also be thirty tap dancers on stage.

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And before the candidates fly to Reunion, Amandine Petit, who will soon give in to her crown concludes: "It's an adventure that allows me to gain self-confidence, I'm not afraid to speak up, to parade in a swimsuit.

I haven't changed anything in me all my year.

I still have my note of humor and I am without taboos!

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