This Saturday, December 24, Nathalie Marquay (Miss France 1987) returned to her failed election, the first broadcast on television and allowing the participation of viewers, in an unpublished documentary broadcast on TF1.
A new young woman was crowned Miss France recently. She bears the name ofIndira Ampiot, straight from Guadeloupe. At 18, this communication student becomes the ambassador of her region and of all French people. A double mission that she intends to accomplish over the next twelve months, surrounded by Cindy Fabre, newly appointed director general of the national committee. This Saturday, December 24, TF1 devoted part of its afternoon to Miss France: the secrets of the contest. A new documentary in which 12 former beauty queens agree to testify of their experience. Among them, Nathalie Marquay aka the first TV Miss.
A stormy scarf shed
The ex-companion of the late Jean-Pierre Pernaut has, in fact, had the first live election. Broadcast on FR3, the evening of December 31, 1986, the coronation of Nathalie Marquay then 19 years old, continuing “business studies” and representing Alsace, marked the history of French television. Before her, the winners were elected by the spectators and the applause meter. However, this small revolution was accompanied by problems in the counting of votes that day. The viewers voted by telephone, but the journalist in charge of counting the votes and announcing the results was totally overwhelmed. What cause the exasperation of the host star Guy Lux. For example, Miss Reunion was first named second, instead of first runner-up. Hearing the audience”stammer” On this error, the presenter cropped several times live Céleste Prior to the standard, who had even announced this candidate as the winner … A great moment of confusion which, 36 years later, amuses the mother of two children. “It was a disaster, the shame we had!“, she remembers laughing.
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Nathalie Marquay therefore ended up winning the crown of Miss France 1987, with more than 40% of the votes of viewers, including her own parents. His dad also missed the most important moment of the evening : “They voted en masse in Alsace, but really. My mother was at home on the phone to give her voice, at the time we didn’t have a cell phone. My dad did it from a phone booth and he did not see my coronation because he kept calling for me“. A support that will have served well!
