Miss France 2025, the first thirty-year-old and first Martinican to wear the crown, Angélique Angarni-Filopon has not occupied the media space like her predecessors. After a few weeks of intense exposure, the 34-year-old young woman has become rarer on TV sets and on the radio, to the point of intriguing viewers. Why did the reigning Miss, at the center of all attention in December, suddenly step down a few weeks later? The question comes back with insistence as the 2026 election approaches.
Because behind this assumed discretion lies a decision directly linked to the controversies and cyberharassment of which Angélique Angarni-Filopon was the target. The organization chose to “keep her away from the spotlight” to protect her from hateful comments, and the president of the Miss France Society, Frédéric Gilbert, admitted to having himself asked the beauty queen to be more discreet in the media. It remains to be understood how this situation developed over the months.
Angélique Angarni-Filopon, a historic Miss France quickly targeted
On December 14, 2024, at the end of a ceremony followed by millions of viewers on TF1, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss Martinique, was crowned Miss France 2025. A historic coronation: first Miss Martinique to win the title, but also first winner over 30 years since the creation of the competition. A year earlier, artificial intelligence models had placed her… only second: according to an analysis relayed by , the AI saw her behind Miss Guadeloupe, before the actual vote made her triumph.
The day after the election, the new Miss France found herself confronted with a wave of criticism on social networks. His age, his physique, his short hairstyle or even his overseas origin become subjects of sometimes violent comments. The Miss France Society quickly defended itself publicly, but the pressure continued to mount, in a digital climate that was already heavy for former winners.
Controversies, cyberharassment and Frédéric Gilbert’s decision to make it more discreet
In the following weeks, every word from Angélique Angarni-Filopon was scrutinized. Questioned about the Mazan rape affair, linked to the Gisèle Pelicot affair, the young woman chose not to comment. A few days later, on January 8, the day after the tenth anniversary of the attack on , a question came up on Sud Radio: is she “Charlie” and what does she think of the right to blasphemy? Here again, the Miss refuses to give a clear-cut answer. These non-responses, consistent with the duty of reserve usually reminded to Miss France on political or religious subjects, trigger a new round of criticism and fuel the controversy.
Between recurring attacks and threatening comments, the Miss France Society then chose to withdraw its representative from the media. In a column published on November 29 in the magazine, Angélique Angarni-Filopon confides the impact of these last weeks on her: , she summarized in this letter published by the partner of the election. During the trip to prepare for the 2026 edition in Martinique, she also stayed away from the cameras and refused to return to the controversies, a sign that the media withdrawal strategy is well in place.
- Mazan rape case: refusal to take a public position.
- Question “Are you Charlie?” and debate on blasphemy, which revived criticism.
- Hateful comments and threats online, until many appearances were put on hold.
It is in this context that Frédéric Gilbert, president of the Miss France Society, details his position. Guest of the program on Europe 1, he admits to having himself asked Angélique Angarni-Filopon to take it easy in front of the journalists: , he explained, quoted by . He insists on the fact that these young women, propelled overnight to the forefront, do not always have the perspective or the necessary training to face such a media surge, even less when the questions touch on sensitive subjects. For him, this imposed discretion is intended to be a measure of protection, and not a sanction.
After Miss France, a new start for Angélique Angarni-Filopon with Dancing with the Stars
If the year of Angélique Angarni-Filopon’s reign was marked by this withdrawal and rarer interviews, the end of her mandate on TF1 does not mark the end of her presence on screen, quite the contrary. As revealed, Miss France 2025, who will return her crown on December 6 at the Zénith d’Amiens, will then join the cast of the next season of , expected in the first quarter of 2026. A tradition for the channel, which invites a Miss on the floor each year: Angélique Angarni-Filopon will succeed Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, in the running during the previous edition.
For the 34-year-old Martinican flight attendant, this new challenge has everything of a second media chapter, lighter, centered on dance and performance rather than on social debates. The show is presented, in , as an opportunity to “show who she really is”, almost like a second meeting with viewers after a complicated first year. And there, the challenge will no longer be to comment on current events, but to convince the public through weekly choreographies, a very different terrain from that of the sometimes very tricky interviews of recent months.
