Southern Charm alum Eliza Limehouse is ready to welcome her second child with husband, Mark “Struthers” McBride.
The Season 6 Charm-er shared the exciting news with PEOPLE, almost five years after the Christmas Eve birth of the couple’s son, Patton. This time around, Eliza and Mark are expecting a girl, who is also due around the holiday season. Said Eliza, “Struthers and I are over the moon to share that we’re expecting a baby girl, set to join us on December 20, 2025.”
Eliza, herself, will turn 30 on Christmas Day, giving the family even more to celebrate. “It’s so funny how all of these Christmas birthdays happened completely unplanned,” she stated to the outlet. “I don’t know if she’ll arrive on the 20th — she might come sooner or later — but it’s heartwarming that our birthdays are so close together during the holidays. We love Christmastime so much. We’re so excited to meet our fellow Capricorn.”
What’s more, Eliza and her husband already have a name picked out for their newest addition: Bancroft Limehouse McBride, explaining that the baby’s middle name would be her surname (because she never took her husband’s last name). Her nickname would be “Croft.”
Eliza Limehouse in her Southern Charm Season 6 press portrait.
The expectant mom continued, ”I originally thought I’d be having another boy, which is how I decided to use the name Bancroft.”
However, once she discovered she was a girl this time around, the mom said, “I couldn’t let go of the name and decided to keep it.”
Eliza admitted to People that her pregnancy has “definitely been a lot harder” than when expecting Patton. The parents announced their pregnancy with Patton in October 2020, one week after Eliza and Struthers revealed they’d tied the knot in a private ceremony.
“I also am looking forward to cuddling her by the Christmas tree and the fire, with my horses peering in our windows of our little cozy farmhouse,” she stated, in part. “What I’m looking forward to, though, the most will be Patton getting to hold his little sister for the first time … I thank the Lord every day that I get to be their mom. It’s my greatest blessing and joy.”
Eliza announced her pregnancy back in August in an interview with Us Weekly. At the time, she also mentioned how excited she was for everyone to have birthdays around the same time, “I’m due around Christmas, which is funny because Patton and my birthdays are Christmas and Christmas Eve.”
Eliza began dating Struthers in April 2019, although they’d known one another for decades. They got engaged nine months later.
“This is the happiest I’ve ever been,” Eliza told PEOPLE at the time. “It’s so crazy, from the moment Struthers and I [started] dating, I knew he was the man I was going to marry. I’m not kidding you when I tell you, there were fireworks going off! And every moment since then, I’ve just fallen more and more in love with him.”
It’s the last person anyone would expect.
General Hospital keeps throwing suspects at us in the Who Shot Drew mystery. Was it Willow? Michael? Portia? Nina? Jacinda? They all have good reasons to do it. (Most of the audience feels the same.) But there is one person who has the best reason to want Drew gone. And, so far, no one has considered them….
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You’d think, what with gaslighting Willow (Katelyn MacMullen), taunting Michael (Rory Gibson), harassing Portia (Brook Kerr), and trying to steal Monica’s (Leslie Charleson) house — not to mention swiping Tracy’s (Jane Elliot) luggage (SO mature) — Drew (Cameron Mathison) would have no time to be making his daughter Scout’s (Cosette Abinante) life miserable. And if you ask Drew, it’s not Scout he’s trying to make miserable, it’s her brothers, Danny (Asher Antonyzyn) and Rocco (Finn Carr). And her grandmother, Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn).
Drew is throwing out restraining orders, right and left, to keep them all away from his little girl. For her own good, of course.
Well, Scout isn’t appreciating his efforts. She hasn’t said much about it to Drew. Probably because the poor girl has already lost her mother, Sam (Kelly Monaco).
Drew has isolated her from most of her family. Scout doesn’t want to risk losing her father’s life, too. While he’s alive, that is. If Scout is forced to live with only Drew, it would be nice if he didn’t hate her. On the other hand…
On the other hand… if Scout didn’t have to live with Drew… if he were, say, dead… why, that would be a whole other story! If Drew were out of the way, Scout could see her brothers. And her grandma. And her aunts. And basically anyone she wanted, without fear that Drew might remember that they snubbed him in an elevator once by letting the door shut in his face, and now he has a score to settle.
Could Scout have been the one to shoot Drew? Maybe because she heard about this girl in Salem, who shot her uncle… and got away with it, scot-free.