Sylvie Tellier knows it: by becoming director of the Miss France company a few years ago, the businesswoman became a Miss France with a reputation for divisiveness. But is she really the one who is regularly portrayed as a gentrified and pedantic woman? In an interview given to Paris Première and which will be broadcast this Monday, February 26, 2024 in the second part of the evening, the ex-Miss France breaks through the armor and reveals herself like never before faced with the many prejudices she has faced for more than twenty yearsand against whom she learned to fight.
Sylvie Tellier’s interviewer did not hesitate to tell her his four truths and to reveal to her during the interview all the bad things he thought of her: “I’m really happy to interview you, but it’s true that I had prejudices before welcoming you. I thought you were a little stupid“ he dared. Sylvie Tellier’s reaction could not be more honorable: although insulted, the one who gave up her place as president of Miss to Cindy Fabre remained stoic, and responded with rigor and courtesy to the criticism she faced.
A reaction welcomed by his fans and detractors
“We often think that I am a middle-class woman from the provinces, although not at all, I come from a very working-class background.. But of course, we are full of prejudices” declared the sister-in-law of Jean-Pascal Lacoste. Indeed, Sylvie Tellier was born in Nantes into a modest family with whom she grew up in Les Sables-d’Olonne, in Vendée. Many Internet users, upon reading this extract, praised the patience of the Miss, who remained unmoved in the face of the insults she received: “Well I find his reaction majestic. She didn’t flinch, she didn’t change her face with astonishment, so yes, a majestic reaction.” applauded a user, joined by dozens of others.
Since leaving the Miss France company, Sylvie Tellier continues to appear in the media, but pursues an entrepreneurial career far from showbiz. In an interview with Parisian published in December 2022, the businesswoman lifted the veil on the reasons for his departure, precipitated by the arrival of Alexia Laroche-Joubert as president of the competition (she has since been president of Banijay France), and the new rules she imposed. Sylvie Tellier disagreed with her colleague on opening the competition to tattooed women and mothers, and thus passed the hand. However, she keeps an eye open on the competition, since the forty-year-old was president of the jury last December for the election of Ève Gilles, and inherited the honorary position of honorary president by Jean-Pierre Foucault.