Hilary Banks is getting her own ZIP code.
Coco Jones reportedly is slated to headline “Hilary,” a spinoff of Peacock’s “Bel-Air” now in development at the streamer.
The Grammy winner would reprise the role she played across all four seasons. This time with her name on the title card.
Fans were thrilled for the singer following the news. It lands in the middle of what already has been the loudest year of her life.
“Bel-Air,” which ran for four seasons from 2022 to 2025, is the reimagining of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” the Will Smith sitcom that raised a generation in the ’90s.
Karyn Parsons originated Hilary back then. Jones took the role in 2022 and made it hers, playing the eldest Banks daughter as an influencer and entrepreneur.
Per Variety, her character, Hilary, takes a job from a celebrity chef, moves to New York, and tries to prove she’s more than her Bel-Air last name.
“Girls Trip” writer Tracy Oliver is penning it, with Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios producing. If it gets picked up, “Bel-Air” would become the first scripted Peacock original to spawn a spinoff.
But the news everybody actually spent August talking about happened three weeks earlier.
Jones married Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell on Aug. 1 in an intimate ceremony in Greenwich, Connecticut, per ESPN. The guest list ran deep too. Jaylen Brown, Bam Adebayo, Jalen Brunson, Ciara and Russell Wilson all turned out, and footage of Brown filming Brunson on the dance floor took off online before the couple said a word publicly.
After the wedding, she had fans waiting two full weeks for pictures.
On Aug. 14, Jones finally posted the carousel. From the crystal-covered mermaid gown, the lace veil, the reception look, Mitchell in a cream suit with custom sneakers stamped “08.01.26” in gold. Her caption was straight from the heart: “You are more than I ever knew to ask God for, and I get the gift of loving you for a lifetime.”
Then her brand-new husband got on X and ruined the moment in the funniest way possible.
“Aight we married now can I please get a follow back?” Mitchell posted. The internet did not recover. Because it wasn’t the first time she left him on read. And that’s the part that makes it even funnier.
Mitchell actually had spotted Jones years before they ever met, back when “Bel-Air” did a collaboration with his Adidas line. He slid into her Instagram DMs. She never opened it. Jones told Complex News in December 2025 that she’s glad she didn’t. He’d sent a red heart, and, by her own account, that wouldn’t have worked on her anyway.
They finally met face to face in 2023 at a creatives networking event with a no-phone policy. This meant that the man who couldn’t get a DM read had to walk up and talk to her. It worked. She confirmed the relationship in February 2025, they got engaged that July on vacation, and married a year later.
Which brings the follow-back joke full circle. Mitchell got the ring, the ceremony and the caption. Still waiting on the follow though.
Back on the “Bel-Air” side, reaction to the spinoff news split between excitement and side-eye. “THANK GOD!!” wrote one person under Deadline’s Instagram post.
“And please don’t keep her in this bohemian story line! I WANT TO SEE HILARY STORM THE SCENE in her little mini skirt suites!!!!!” Another zeroed in on what mattered: “The outfits are about to be fireeeee.”
Another IG user was already thinking ahead, with what could follow down the line: “Can’t wait for the other spinoffs, Carlton and Geoffrey to be announced!”
Others weren’t sold. “Was her storyline worth it though, I would have preferred Will college story,” one argued. Another user came with a different complaint: “I wish they had done this with the original series.”
Either way, Jones is continuing to win, both on the music side and acting. She has yet to publicly address news of her spinoff series.
