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Risqué Pics Won't Dethrone Miss France

Posted Dec 28, 07 3:25 PM CST in World,  Gossip,  Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Miss France will keep her crown despite the publication of racy pictures featuring the 22-year-old student, AFP reports. Photographs of Valerie Begue licking yogurt off a wall and straddling a cross in a bikini had Genevieve de Fontenay, the pageant's sharp-tongued patron, threatening to strip Begue of her title; Begue won't be allowed to compete internationally as Miss France.

“I wouldn’t want to be seen touring the provinces with a girl like that,” de Fontenay told a French radio station. But, after an outburst of support on Begue's Indian Ocean island home of Reunion, de Fontenay agreed to leave it at that. "I am happy to keep my title and … thank all those who helped me," Begue said.

Sources: AFP, Associated Press, BBC

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Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, left, of the Reunion islands, whose crown has been threatened since publication of suggestive photographs in a magazine, holds a press conference in Paris, Friday Dec....   (Associated Press)
Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, of the Reunion islands, whose crown has been threatened since publication of suggestive photographs in a magazine, holds a press conference in Paris, Friday Dec. 28, 2007....   (Associated Press)
Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, right, of the Reunion islands, whose crown has been threatened since publication of suggestive photographs in a magazine, arrives for a press conference, followed by Sylvie...   (Associated Press)
Valerie Begue of Reunion is crowned Miss France 2008 in Dunkerque, northern France Saturday Dec. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)   (Associated Press)
Genevieve de Fontenay president of Committee Miss France holds a press conference about Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue, of the Reunion islands, whose crown has been threatened since publication of suggestive...   (Associated Press)
Valerie Begue of Reunion is crowned Miss France 2008 in Dunkerque, northern France Saturday Dec. 8, 2007. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)   (Associated Press)
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