Delphine Wespiser

Biography

Delphine Wespiser (born 3 January 1992) is a French model, TV host, politician and beauty pageant titleholder. She was elected Miss Haut-Rhin 2011, Miss Alsace 2011 and Miss France 2012.

== Biography == Delphine Wespiser is from Magstatt-le-Bas, located in the department of Haut-Rhin. She is the daughter of an architect father and a laboratory technician mother and has an older brother. She spent her entire childhood and did her schooling in the region of Alsace. In 2010, she passed her high school final exams in economics and social studies. She then studied international business management, joining the IUT in Colmar. She was crowned Miss Alsace 2011 in Kingersheim, Haut-Rhin on 2 October 2011. Two months later, she was crowned Miss France 2012 in Brest. Delphine is the spokesperson of many charitable organizations like "Caravane de la vie" for blood donation. She also defends animal welfare with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and is a vegetarian. Because of these beliefs, she also had interest in becoming a veterinarian. In addition to French, she is fluent in English and German. She also speaks Alsatian and promotes the use of regional languages.

== Miss France 2012 ==

=== Election === Delphine Wespiser was crowned Miss France 2012 on 3 December 2011 in Brest, succeeding Miss France 2011 Laury Thilleman, obtaining 32.3% from the votes of the audience. Her runner-ups are:

1st runner-up: Miss Pays de Loire, Mathilde Couly 2nd runner-up: Miss Réunion, Marie Payet; Miss Universe France 2012 3rd runner-up: Miss Provence, Solène Froment 4th runner-up: Miss Côte d'Azur, Charlotte Murray 5th runner-up: Miss Martinique, Charlène Civault 6th runner-up: Miss Languedoc, Alison Cossenet

=== Miss World ===

On 18 August 2012, Delphine Wespiser represented France during the Miss World 2012 election in Ordos City in the region of Inner Mongolia in China, where she failed to reach the semi-final. Her second runner-up Marie Payet participated at the Miss Universe 2012 title on 19 December 2012 in Las Vegas.

=== Miss France year === On 28 January 2012, she gave an award at the thirteenth ceremony of the NRJ Music Awards, broadcast live on TF1 at the Midem of Cannes. During that year, Delphine Wespiser met Miss Switzerland 2011 Alina Buchschacher, Miss Ukraine 2012, and Oleysia Stefanko, first runner-up of Miss Universe 2011, as well as other personalities. She then participated in a special Miss France episode of the game show Fort Boyard, filmed at night and broadcast for Halloween 2012 with former Miss France Sylvie Tellier, Corinne Coman, Lætitia Bléger, Laury Thilleman and journalist Christophe Beaugrand for the International Fund for Animal Welfare. She also participated in the program Un dîner presque parfait (French version of Come Dine with Me) on M6 on the week from Monday 19 to Friday 23 November 2012 in Mulhouse. The program was broadcast again in December 2016 on W9.