In the above photo, behind the new miss, the lady in a black and white hat is Geneviève de Fontenay. Having chaperoned the Miss France contest for ages, she has become a celebrity in her own right. It might even be said that, in France, the look and the outspoken personality of Madame de Fontenay are probably better known than the identity of the latest miss.
Now, the famous chaperone turned red with fury when she learned that some old photos of Valérie Bègue, posed in a suggestive manner, have been published in a French magazine. Madame de Fontenoy announced that the new Miss France should resign immediately, and she even referred to La Réunion in an impolite fashion that might be construed as offensive, indeed racist. As for Valérie and her countless supporters in La Réunion and elsewhere, she doesn't appear disposed to yield her newly-won crown. So, a war has broken out between Miss France and Geneviève de Fontenoy.Not to be outdone by miss-behavior in France, Belgium provides us with a shocking case of an unexpected miss-adventure involving their newly-elected national miss, named Alizée Poulicek.
Normally, in Belgium, individuals in the public limelight are expected to be fluent in at least two languages: French and Flemish. Well, Miss Belgium doesn't seem to understand a word of Flemish. To put it bluntly, in the case of Miss Belgium, something is seriously amiss.Elsewhere on the planet, another miss has hit the news: Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007. Somebody asked her what she thought of the fact that many Americans can't locate their land on maps. To my mind, her reply was more stunning than the sexy photos of Miss France and more alarming than the linguistic infirmities of Miss Belgium.
I wonder if all these problems with "Miss whatever" are not to be considered as a symptom of discontents (in a Freudian sense: Unbehagen, malaise) in respective countries.
ReplyDeleteBy the way - according to the Nouvel Obs - Miss France had to resign.
The latest evolution of the Laure Manaudou story might be appended to my miss news. In an intimate moment of profound audiovisual awareness, France's favorite swimmer allowed or encouraged her Italian boyfriend to take video shots of her bare arse, "à toutes fins utiles" [for any useful purpose]. Well, Laure apparently forgot to inform her boyfriend that he should never think about marketing the product. The silly fucking female should have grabbed her lover's trigger finger when he was moving it from one intimate erotic zone to another, and declared: "No, Marco, not now. I've got a video headache." To put it bluntly, I simply don't believe in multimedia sex victims.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, back in Paris, when I was young and headstrong, I had the habit of meeting up with lots of young ladies. But there's one thing I simply never got around to doing... no doubt because I lacked imagination. It never occurred to me to say to a friend: "Before we start screwing, would you mind if I turned on my camescope?" OK, you'll say retrospectively that I was mindless, irresponsible. My children will have missed out on millions of euros that they might have earned by marketing the sex videos of their old man if only he had thought about turning on the camescope — once upon a time, back in Paris — before the silly old bugger got into action! Sorry, but we can't remake the past. But we can comment upon it. Meanwhile, Laure Manaudou would do well to hide her silly arse.