A bizarre woke row has erupted after a Miss France contestant with a pixie cut hairstyle won for the first time in the pageant’s history
Eve Gilles, 20, from Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern part of the country was crowned by previous winner Indira Ampiot in front of 7.5 million TV viewers last night.
But the beauty pageant is now facing peculiar backlash that it has gone ‘woke’ after the judges chose ‘androgynous’ Ms Gilles as Miss France 2024 after all previous winners featured more supposedly ‘traditional’ long, flowing hair and curves.
‘We’re used to seeing beautiful Misses with long hair, but I chose an androgynous look with short hair,’ a defiant Ms Gilles said.
She also praised her win as a win for ‘diversity’ and added: ‘No one should dictate who you are,’ she said after her victory Saturday night, adding that every ‘woman is different, we’re all unique.’
The pageant winner is chosen half by a public vote and half by a jury. While Ms Gilles only came third in the public vote, the panel of judges pushed her into first place.
But Ms Gilles, who wants to be a statistician, is the first winner in the 103-year history of the pageant who doesn’t have long hair – much to the dismay of some viewers.
‘Miss France is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest which is based on inclusiveness,’ one user wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
This was echoed by some others on Twitter, with one accusing Ms Gilles of ‘instilling wokist values into society’.
Other negative comments included one who said that she ‘doesn’t look anything like Miss France’ and that ‘we don’t care about her haircut but the androgynous body is obviously there to serve as woke’.
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