welcome to aurora bay, [BRADLEY BANNER]! i couldn’t help but notice you look an awful lot like [MEGAN FOX]. you must be the [THIRTY FOUR] year old [A-LISTER / OWNER OF SEASCAPE HOTEL + FIRE & ICE STEAKHOUSE & COCKTAIL BAR]. word is you’re [INDEPENDENT] but can also be a bit [STOIC] and your favorite song is [HOTTER THAN HELL BY DUA LIPA]. i also heard you’ll be staying in [AURORA BAY DRIVE]. i’m sure you’ll love it!
BASICS.
NAME: bradley billie banner.
BIRTHDAY: january 7th, 1990.
GENDER + PRONOUNS: cis-female, she/her.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual.
TIME LIVED IN TOWN: on and off since twenty-five, permanently for the past 18 months (as of 17th sept 2023).
OCCUPATION: owner of seascape hotel & fire and ice steakhouse and cocktail bar that’s situated within the hotel — the hotel is part of a large chain of hotels owned by her family. bradley is the COO to the banner group, her father is CEO. bradley has gained global a-lister acclaim through business & has various separate business deals going on that put her at the forefront of magazines / billboards / etc (think, socialite / hilton family vibes).
FAMILY: elijah banner (father), isla banner (mother), beau banner (twin brother, deceased), blue ramsey (half-brother, family secret).
TATTOOS: 'SDL' in tiny caps on her hip (her ex-husbands favourite spot to rest his hand big up scottsdale airport, arizona), three dots on her inner elbow (received from whang-od), a small bird outline on her shoulder (for beau), & a very faint outline of writing on her ribs that she had removed (was prev. a line from her wedding vows in spanish).
PIERCINGS: ears and right nipple.
POSITIVE TRAITS: independent, adventurous, perceptive.
NEGATIVE TRAITS: stoic, extravagant, suspicious.
NEIGHBOURHOOD: aurora bay drive (but also constantly has a room checked out at the hotel).
FC: megan fox.
PART OF: @aurorabayaesthetic.
BABY BIO.
tw. mention of drug use / car crash + sibling death / infidelity + divorce / miscarriage / brief stalking mention.
born in calabasas, los angeles.
1 of 2, born with a diamond spoon firmly in her mouth to parents who belonged to a vast hotelier dynasty, bradley and her older (by three minutes) twin brother beau never had to want for anything.
grew up in the spotlight (elijah banner was naturally known from being one of fortune 500s business owners) being juggled between boardrooms and nannies until she was old enough to be shipped off to the best boarding school the US had to offer.
unlike her twin, bradley managed to stay on the straight and narrow, working hard, making friends (natural born leader), and not letting the name that followed her weigh her down with expectations.
beau however, struggling between who were real friends and who wanted something took to a lifestyle of partying, sneaking out of school, getting high, getting into fights, and stealing their fathers stupidly fast cars.
it was after the latest fight about college applications and one of those stupidly fast cars that had the family called to the ER one night, breaking news reporting that beau banner had died after crashing through a bridge at 143 mph.
the banners set up a charity in the name of their son, making beau the poster child and bradley the presenter. she spent the next seven months counting down the days until she went to college so she could escape the circus.
attended yale (like the generations of banners before her), studying economics and political science.
got her MBA from harvard.
after graduation she had zero choice in the fact she'd take a seat at the banner table, joining the family business and making her mark on the hotelier world as a member of the board.
at the age of twenty five, and on the anniversary of beaus death (14th march), bradley entered her parents house and (unbeknown to them) overheard a drunken argument about how her father still had a son and couldn't comprehend the loss her mother felt. even though listening in on her parents was not something she made habit of, she proceeded to listen in on how "thats not my son, not really" transcended into a twenty seven year old half-sibling that bradley previously had no knowledge of.
elijah banner had managed to knock up the receptionist at one of the hotels whilst on a golf trip in aurora bay and then skipped out on that responsibility before baby trapping his wife with twins before she found out.
bradley took that as an opportunity to visit aurora bay. seeking the sibling that could perhaps heal just a tiny bit of pain she still constantly felt about beau.
whilst in aurora bay, she met santiago de leon, marrying him somewhat swiftly (news that indeed, shocked anyone that kept up with her). some even calling it a late stage rebellion. in reality, she just needed someone in her corner without banner drama and an excuse other than blue to stay.
spent the next four years of her marriage private jetting between boardrooms in LA and her home in aurora bay, juggling a husband and a career, whilst getting to know her new sibling.
the marriage ended when she found out santiago was cheating on her. divorce papers were served before he'd even been given the opportunity to explain himself.
it was six weeks into the divorce that bradley realised she had skipped her period twice, and honestly, she'd claim still couldn't tell you if the father was her ex-husband or the hockey player she crawled under to get over him (even if those dates don't add up). either way, she quickly decided that maybe this was the one good thing to come out of her marriage until it wasn't — a routine scan showed no sign of a fetal heartbeat and she found she'd lost the child that had quickly become her reason to get up in the morning.
spent the next twelve months being photographed at various locations around the globe on a constant cycle of vacationing, working, dating anyone whose anyone and playing the life of a socialite.
finally returned to aurora bay 18 months ago, she still spends a large amount of time on flights and sitting in boardrooms, but home is her mansion in aurora bay drive, and she always finds herself back there, blue feels more like family than any of the banners do but there’s still a missing spot from where her extended de leons family used to sit.
FACTS.
is a household name in the same way kim kardashian is. your grandma has probably heard of her (even if she couldn’t pick her out of a lineup).
elijah banner (bradleys father) is the CEO of the banner group, bradley is the COO.
the banners own 450+ hotels across six continents (think the hiltons!) and don't generally have day-to-day dealings with any of them, but bradley likes to show her face at seascape to review renovations on the 7th floor seeing as she's so close by.
was once on the cover of playboy.
lives alone (minus ellis shipley and lennon clarke, her butler and her chef) but has a whole other host of staff in and out throughout the day. truly doesn't need to lift a finger in the sense of running her home.
has several other properties dotted around due to her travel needs.
has a private jet & has been subject to one of those twitter accounts following its every move. refuses to comment on her travel arrangements but feels guilt about her global footprint & tries to offset this feeling by donating (very generously) to sustainability & reforestation projects.
was on forbes 30 under 30.
is on forbes billionaire rich list (her first entry was in 2022) with an estimated net worth of 1.3 billion usd. this is a mix of her banner worth & her personal business deals (brand deals / buying into businesses as a partner / modelling for fashion houses, etc) outside of the banner dynasty.
has an AMEX centurion card (american express black card).
can play the piano.
spends every vacation visiting a new country.
can speak several languages fluently.
has been on the cover of vogue seven times, three for amercan vogue, four international.
has been on various other magazine covers and has a whole wall of them framed in her home office (all except her people magazine wedding day cover, which is buried deep in storage somewhere.)
theres a 98% chance that she can get you tickets to anything, but the reality that she actually will is much lower.
aside from hotels, her family owns shares in an indy 500 team and is currently looking into buying into formula 2, the banners sponsor the mercedes f1 team and have for the past ten years. as well as various other business ventures.
has a custom made monopoly board that is banner inspired, but is absolutely terrible at monopoly. the dice never seem to roll in her favour.
has 327.4 million followers on instagram (@bradleybanner).
has a finster for her actual friends (@bannersryan).
has been known to use the name ryan when she doesn't want to be recognised (how well that works out depends on how well the person she's using it on knows what she looks like).
rumour is she's writing a book about her life.
had a legit stalker in 2022 and has only just relaxed her security.
has been to the MET gala six times, 2024 will be her seventh.
was in a submergence (xaviers band) music video.
hates hates hates (!!) spiders.
is a democrat (and has donated a lot of money to presidential campaigns).
regularly donates blood (and documents it on social media in hopes of influencing others to do the same).
was announced as brand ambassador for balmain 2024.
CONNECTIONS.
ex-wife of @santiagodeleons.
old-friend of @aeris-flores.
bestie & frequent deuxmoi blind-item feature with @xaviermattthews.
employer of @maverick-liu (he's her personal assistant).
dated @pxtrickbalfe after her marriage ended.
friends with @vanessagable, @cavenshh, @delilahcarreno, @auggievillanueva, @firefighterrojas, @thelizaxlevin, @dancingdanvers, @connievanderbilt.
fired (or at least shipley fired) @cricketcampbell for accidentally posting her address in a tiktok video.
was-aunt (via her marriage to santiago) to @maura-cortes.
its sort-of-awkward on friend(ly) terms with @benj-hyun (her ex-husbands best friend).
@mackmontgomery, the 'soulmate' super fan — she doesn't know he exists.
SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.
anyone within her staff circle, bradley has a ton of staff bound by NDAs: hair-stylist, make-up artist, wardrobe stylist, personal assistant, security, maid, chef, social media manager (basically anyone who could work for her) — bradley treats her staff with respect / treats them like extended family but would be quick to dismiss anyone who puts her reputation / privacy at risk.
best friend, someone who just gets her / no judgement, easy vibes.
anyone in her inner circle: aka people who grew up under similar circumstances (rich / famous / affluent families — all of the above).
someone she attempted to date since her ex-husband, lasted a couple of months before fizzing out for whatever reason tbd. (after her divorce she's sworn off dating a normie — would need to be rich, with good social standing / reputation / likes the finer things in life / understands her world.)
people she dated before her ex-husband that didnt work out for whatever reason (she’s from calabasas LA, so would require some timeline matching) teens through to young adult.
anyone who works at seascape. (bradley doesnt involve herself in day-to-day running of the hotel, but she is present at the hotel sometimes — has a room constantly booked out).
that one wild fan that seems to be everywhere and is very sweet — doesn't quite overstep the boundary, but teeters close.
the hater! honestly, she hasn't done anything but they just don't like her because "why is she famous".
GENERAL WANTED CONNECTIONS.
(brief because they’re just suggestions & i’m certainly open to anything not here!!)
PLATONIC / FRIENDLY.
squad (pls give her a wolf pack!) / ride or die / best friends / sibling like friends / unlikely friends / new friends / friends from LA.
ROMANTIC.
raya matches (she's not on tinder) / blind date / one night stand(s) / flirtationship / we dated but it didn't quite work out.
NEGATIVE.
former friends / frenemies / enemies / fake friends / stans.
