As she prepares to celebrate her 90th birthday, Geneviève de Fontenay gave her news in the pages of the magazine Paris here. The opportunity to take stock of her current life, she who has definitely left the world of beauty contests. Twelve years after her departure from Miss France, in favor of Sylvie Tellier, she still has not digested.
After refusing to take part last year in the centenary of Miss France – she also questions the exact date -, which saw Diane Leyre triumph, Geneviève de Fontenay is still and still angry with the one who stung her her place: Sylvie Tellier. “With this centenary, Sylvie Tellier has stolen three quarters of my life. In addition, the date is not the right one because the first competition stamped Miss France took place in 1928! Anyway, Miss France, for me, it’s over. It’s like I have a concrete wall in front of me“, she says. Finished, finished … Geneviève de Fontenay does not miss an opportunity to swing a cowery on the contest – like the fact of opening it to trans people – or the ex-Miss as soon as she does. can. Mareva Galanter?”Insignificant“. Valerie Begue? “I should have slapped him!“. Nathalie Marquay? Her election was “faked“…
Moreover, now also angry with Nathalie Marquay, Geneviève de Fontenay adds a layer: “I will never forgive the rude comments she made against me at Cyril Hanouna. Nathalie was obnoxious while I always supported her (…) I never had any problems with her. I remain very shocked by his attacks. I prefer to forget it.“
Now retired, Geneviève de Fontenay no longer has the ambition to put her nose in beauty contests and she does not even have the spirit of revenge since Sylvie Tellier is at the heart of incessant rumors saying on the carpet. “I’m not worried about Sylvie. She’s got connections, she’ll do something else“, she says. And no question of considering for a minute to come back to recover her place since the future of the competition is not going in the direction she would like; it could be that the competition is declined in a kind of reality TV with a follow-up from the aspiring Misses: “It makes no sense to upset everything like that and I don’t give much for the future.“
Paris hereAugust 24, 2022 edition.