There are only a few weeks of reign to Diane Leyre before transmitting her title of Miss France, crown and scarf included. Next Saturday, December 17, 30 candidates will parade and express themselves on the stage of the MACH 36 performance hall located in the town of Déols, north of Châteauroux, in the Center-Val de Loire region to try to convince the jury and the viewers to become Miss France 2023. A contest that the former winners will surely watch with great kindness and emotion, unlike the atmosphere that apparently reigns behind the scenes.
Sonia Rolland, Miss France 2000, knows something about it. At only 18 years old, the young woman was elected by the public after intense preparation in rhinestones, sequins… and bickering! If when Sylvie Tellier was still committee director, the agreement was in good shape between the candidates, this was not the case the year of the election of Sonia Rolland. The star of Criminal Tropics who passes behind the camera in Angoulême. The one who was Miss Burgundy wishes to put in images the particular year that she went through and behind the scenes: “It’s a universe that looks like society” she confided to Free Charente.
If as a general rule, the best wins, the most manipulative and calculating can also pull out of the game. Sonia Rolland is categorical: behind the scenes of Miss France, “Onne [les] don’t really know.” Several clans are formed within the candidates: that “favorites, pests, super nice people who are too altruistic, rebels who wonder what they’re doing there” and of which Sonia Rolland considers herself to have been a part. Her beauty, her elegance, her class and her attitude will have finally tipped the scales, no offense to the other competitors ready to do anything to win.
The title of Miss France 2000 officially obtained, Sonia Rolland was disillusioned. In question ? The despicable criticisms of which she was the object and which her own mother feared more than anything: “After the election, I received 2700 letters of insults and death threats” If she does not endorse the authors of these remarks, Sonia Rolland regrets the treatment inflicted on them at the time: “Things were finally simpler and clearer. We made fun of racists. This is no longer the case today.” Regrettable.