“Without offending her, without making her angry…”: Sylvie Tellier recalls the time she stood up to Geneviève de Fontenay

This Tuesday, July 2, Sylvie Tellier confided in Anne-Sophie Delcour, as part of a video in partnership with the platform Welcome to the Jungle. While she was talking about her power of persuasion, the mother drew a parallel with Geneviève de Fontenay.

For many, Geneviève de Fontenay will remain the Miss France popeIt must be said that the Lady with the Hat led the Committee for decades. before handing over the reins in 2007 to Sylvie TellierMiss France 2002. However, if the two powerful women cut a good figure in front of the cameras, behind the scenes, the tension was more than palpable. On the set of C à vous, on May 29, Laurent Schenten’s wife told Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine that she had seen images of her election that had left a lasting impression on her. “I have just been elected, I don’t know Geneviève de Fontenay, and there is a kind of empty space between us two, even though we don’t know each other.”she recalls.

And to add: “I think she was a little scared, once again, it’s 2000, women are starting to speak out a little bit, we explain that we also have a little ambition… I think Genevieve is scared and she’s like, ‘Wow! Am I going to be able to handle this, is this going to go well?’“

Sylvie Tellier: the day she stood up to Geneviève de Fontenay

This Tuesday, July 2, Sylvie Tellier was invited to a job interview more real than life for the needs of a video organized by the recruitment platform Welcome to the Jungle. The perfect opportunity for the mother to look back on her studies as a lawyer and to talk about the “last little challenge” that she wants to embark on: that of entering the Miss France competition. “It’s the coincidence of life in fact. By being Miss France, I learned self-denial, because the director of the competition didn’t want me,” she says straight away. The young woman, who defines herself as “a woman of conviction” returned to the time she stood up to the late Geneviève de Fontenay.

“One of the first decisions I want to make is to put on the two-piece swimsuit [aux Miss France, NDLR] And she is against the two-piece swimsuit. It’s not very nice of you to“Apart from that, I had to explain to him that it was good for the modernity of the program,” she recalled. “It was a source of discussion, but I managed to convince her, without offending her, without making her angry“. Sylvie Tellier, a strong woman.