She’s only slept for three hours, but her dream is only just beginning. A crazy year awaits Ève Gilles, crowned Miss France 2024 this Saturday, December 16, 2023 ahead more than 7.5 million viewers. This new ceremony, still orchestrated by Jean-Pierre Foucault and chaired by Sylvie Tellier, achieved a real audience success by attracting more than 60% of housewives and 86% of 15-24 year olds. Exceptional, stratospheric scores, which allowed the Miss France ceremony to break historic records on these priority targets. At the end of the evening, it was finally Ève Gilles, aka Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, who won against Miss Guyana. In the details of the votes, the public had favored Miss Guyana, but she had only been ranked fourth by the jury; Conversely, Ève Gilles, ranked third by the public, was ranked first by the jury, which therefore carried her to victory.
But for several hours, Ève Gilles has been the target of unprecedented attacks. The young lady is faced with criticism about her physiqueand many accuse the production of having wanted to crown a Miss France the antipodes of the previous ones, with short hair, very few shapes, and a very thin figure. The violence and attacks suffered by Ève Gilles are unprecedented, no other Miss France before her had suffered such attacks. Invited this Sunday, December 17, 2023 from 1 p.m. by Anne-Claire Coudray on TF1 to grant her very first television interview, the one who succeeded Indira Ampiot and Amandine Petit wanted to clarify things once and for all.
“We must be as we are”
At ease, in no way intimidated by the cameras, the young woman recalled that she did not want to become a Miss who would remain in the annals of the competition because of having short hair: “It’s a little different from the Misses we knew before. Afterwards, I don’t want to be known as the Miss with Short Hair, obviously. We always tell ourselves that to be Miss, you have to fit into a box, to have gone to Miss school. No way ! You just have to be as you are, you just have to want it. and want to, yes” clarified the young woman, who will carry out an incredible number of interviews during the next few rounds, alongside Cindy Fabre.