Gisèle Rindelknecht

**Gisèle Anne-Marie Aurélie Rindelknecht** (born 18 April 1999) is a Maronan reality television personality, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. Rindelknecht is best known for winning season five of *Love Island Marone*.

Prior to her career on reality television, Rindelknecht was crowned Miss Ambas 2022 and placed as the first runner-up at Miss Marone 2023.

## Early life and education

Rindelknecht was born on 18 April 1999 in the town of Mertensdorf in the Bas-Trihan department to parents Oliver (born 1965) and Marianne Rindelknecht (née *Netter*; born 1969). Her father is a Lungarian physician originally from the state of Heinland, while her mother is a pharmacist. Rindelknecht was raised as the youngest of three daughters; her elder sisters include Lydie (born 1996) and Cécile (born 1997).

Rindelknecht began her education in 2004, attending public schooling. She later graduated from primary school in 2011, and afterwards completed *collège* as well in 2014. Rindelknecht afterwards enrolled in a *lycée académique* program to study natural sciences and mathematics, with the goal of becoming a physician like her father and elder sister, but ultimately found the curriculum uninteresting. After graduating in 2017, Rindelknecht enrolled in the University of Viersbourg as a law student, and graduated with her bachelor's degree in 2020. She later returned to the school and received a master's degree in intellectual property law in 2022. After graduating with her master's degree in 2022, Rindelknecht was admitted to the Maronan Bar, and had planned to prepare for the ENMg admissions exam in order to become a judge.

## Career

### Pageantry

Rindelknecht began her pageantry career in 2018, after registering to compete in Miss Ambas 2018. The pageant was held in October 2018, where Rindelknecht went on to place as the first runner-up behind winner Vanessa Destine, who also went on to win Miss Marone 2019. Rindelknecht had initially become interested in competing after her elder sister Cécile placed as the fourth runner-up at Miss Ambas 2015. Four years later, Rindelknecht returned to pageantry after registering to compete in Miss Ambas 2022. The pageant was held in October 2022, and Rindelknecht went on to win the title. As Miss Ambas, Rindelknecht was qualified for Miss Marone 2023.

Miss Marone was held on 17 December 2022 in Chassonne. In the competition, Rindelknecht advanced from the initial pool of 30 contestants into the top twelve, and later entered the top five as well. After reaching the top five, Rindelknecht finished as the first runner-up, behind winner Gwendoline Bunc of Carandie.

### *Love Island Marone*

In May 2024, Rindelknecht was announced by TM1 as one of the six female Islanders to start out season five of the TM1 dating reality series *Love Island Marone*. The season was the first to be broadcast on TM1, after its previous four seasons had been broadcast on M9.

In July 2024, Rindelknecht and fellow participant Quentin Hurler were voted as the show's winning couple by the Maronan public, and also received a $50,000 cash prize. With both Rindelknecht and Hurler being Ambasians, their victory was heavily reported on by the Ambasian media, and was partially credited to the votes of Ambasian viewers.

## Personal life

Rindelknecht has been in a relationship with her *Love Island Marone* season five cast mate Quentin Hurler since beginning their relationship on the series in June 2024. She splits her time between Viersbourg and Delmas.