Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard star Jasmine Ellis Cooper is eagerly anticipating the arrival of her son, but is disappointed that her husband, Silas Cooper, will not be there for the birth. “He’s been supportive as much as he can from thousands of miles away. And he knows that I’m in good hands with my housemates, so that’s been great,” Jasmine, 31, told Us Weekly at BravoCon on Friday, November 3.
Silas, 32, announced in March 2022 via Instagram that he had become a commissioned officer in the Army reserve after training 1000 miles from his home in New York City. His family is from Liberia, and he noted that one reason he joined the Army Reserve was because America “embraced my family and I at a time when my native country was at war.”
Jasmine announced in November that she and Silas are expecting their first child. “Silas and I will be welcoming Baby Cooper February 2024!” she wrote via Instagram at the time.
Hollywood stars including Brody Jenner and Logic announced in 2023 that they are expanding their families by welcoming new babies.
Jasmine and Silas met on the Hinge dating app. The couple got engaged in 2021, and were married in June 2022 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Regarding starting a family, Jasmine was not concerned about whether their child would be a boy or a girl.
With her husband away in the military, Jasmine said Silas was definitely missed as they shot season two of the series over the summer.
The original Summer House premiered on Bravo in January 2017 and followed a group of friends who share a house in the Hamptons on weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Its success led to two spinoffs; Winter House and Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard.
Season 1 of the Vineyard series took place over the course of 15 days in late summer 2022 in the town of Edgartown. After a successful season 1, which premiered in May 2023, season 2 is set to debut in 2024.
Fleming said that the local residents gave the cast a warm reception for their return in August 2023 to the vineyard. “It was a lot of activities, a lot of outings, a lot of rebuilt relationships,” she commented. “We got known all around. People were loving us being there.”