Ava Dash is looking to make a name for herself in NYC. The Next Gen NYC cast member has two very ambitious parents, a great group of friends, and is hoping to figure it all out on Next Gen NYC Season 2 after making her Bravo debut back in Season 1.
Per Ava’s official bio for Next Gen NYC Season 2, “Ava is as ambitious as ever. She’s jumpstarted her modeling career and is determined to carve out a new lane for herself in the influencer space. As she works to build a brand that’s entirely her namesake, her reputation, which is under a microscope, and her personal life are proving to be equally complicated.”
Read on to learn more about Ava, her famous parents, her connection to the Next Gen NYC Season 2 cast, her relationship with professional wrestler Hook, and more.
Ava Dash quick facts
Ava Dash is 26 years old as of August 2026.
Ava Dash’s birthday is December 7, 1999.
Ava Dash’s parents are Damon Dash and Rachel Roy.
Ava Dash has a career as a model and influencer.
Ava Dash appears on Bravo’s Next Gen NYC.
When is Ava Dash’s birthday?
Ava was born on December 7, 1999, according to Instagram.
How old is Ava Dash?
As of June 2026, Ava is 26 years old and a Sagittarius.
What does Ava Dash do for a living?
Ava is a model and an influencer. She frequently posts on her Instagram account, where she shares glimpses of her super glamorous life traveling across the globe, modeling, and hanging out with her friends in NYC.
Ava gave a career update during Season 2, Episode 7, sharing in a confessional that she had signed a contract with Ford Models New York three months earlier. While meeting with the agency’s global digital director and a digital agent, Ava stated that her career goals for 2026 were to “do more beauty stuff and also more editorial stuff,” in order to “elevate” her Instagram content.
“I have to make money, I have to make rent,” Ava said in a producer interview, later adding, “People think that because I grew up with famous parents, that, like, I don’t really have to work, I don’t really have to do anything. But my mom is a single mom. She has no choice but to get practical.”
Ava Dash opens up about appearing on Next Gen NYC
In an interview with Bravo in 2025, around the time Season 1 of Next Gen NYC was premiering, Ava opened up about what it’s been like to share her life on TV and the lessons she took away from filming the first season.
“I feel like I already knew I was kind of a carefree spirit, and doing this really just sunk that in because you can’t have cameras following you around without being able to laugh at yourself and being self-depricating and not take yourself too seriously,” she said. “So I think that really just confirmed it for me.”
Who are Ava Dash’s parents?
Ava’s mom is fashion designer, Rachel Roy. Her dad is entrepreneur and music producer Damon Dash. Ava admitted to Byrdie in June 2026 that her parents inspired her to be a creative person. “With my mom being in fashion, I’ve always been around the industry,” she said. “I’d be running around her office during photo shoots when I was little. Through my dad, I modeled for Rocawear between the ages of four and six. The seeds were planted at an early age.”
After Ava officially moved into her new apartment in Next Gen NYC Episode 9, her mom was there to provide some fashion advice, along with a crash course on budgeting her money. Ava admitted that she’d gone over her moving budget by $2,000, prompting Rachel to point out that meant she was actually in debt. “You know when you put things on a credit card, it’s not really buying it,” Ava’s mom reminded her. “You’re borrowing it.”
How did Damon Dash and Rachel Roy react to Ava Dash on Next Gen NYC?
When speaking with Bravo in 2025, Ava added how her parents reacted to her joining Next Gen NYC. “Well, my family’s already kind of in the public eye, so they were just completely supportive and kind of saw it coming,” she said. “They were not surprised.”
What to Know About Next Gen NYC Season 2
Next Gen NYC Season 2 is officially underway, and the New York City-based friend group is facing more pressure than ever. New episodes air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo and stream the next day on Peacock.
Season 2 of Next Gen NYC follows returning cast members Ariana Biermann, Riley Burruss, Emira D’Spain, Brooks Marks, Ava Dash, Gia Giudice, Georgia McCann, Charlie Zakkour, Shai Fruchter, and Hudson McLeroy, along with new additions Rowan Henchy, Liam Obergfoll, and Kendall White.
As for what’s to come, Next Gen NYC fans can expect to see Ariana caught in a complicated love triangle involving Charlie, Liam, and her ex-boyfriend Hudson; Georgia feuding with both Charlie and Riley; and Brooks once again getting pulled into more friend-group drama. Add in messy breakups, shifting alliances, career moves, and plenty of tension, and Season 2 is shaping up to be the one one for the books.
Want even more Next Gen NYC? Watch the Next Gen NYC After Show. New episodes drop every Wednesday at 10/9c on BravoTV.com and on YouTube, with episodes available on Peacock the following day.
Ava Dash opens up about Damon Dash’s reported eviction from her NYC apartment
Ava revealed that her dad received an eviction notice from their shared apartment in NYC during Next Gen NYC Season 2, Episode 1. “I honestly love seeing what people put out about me and my family and my life on the internet,” Ava said in an interview during the episode. “I think it’s funny, at the end of the day. Some things are so wrong, it’s just like, ‘Whatever, I’m not gonna comment on it.’ But some things are so right, and I’m like, ‘How the f–k did they know that?'”
She further cleared things up in a recent interview with Elite Daily. “We were late on rent payments, and then we paid them, and everything was fine,” she told the publication. “The landlord and I still text. She wanted me to extend my lease. She watches the show.”
Ava Dash shares insight into her friendships with her Next Gen NYC cast members
Ava admitted to the publication that she got off on the wrong foot with Next Gen NYC cast members Ariana Biermann and Gia Giudice over the way they spoke about each other on podcasts after Season 1. This could be seen during Next Gen NYC Season 2, Episode 1, when Ava revealed that Gia called her a liar on a podcast episode. “I just don’t want to be called a liar. And when your friends are talking badly about you in the public. That’s not a good look,” she said during a confessional. “I don’t wanna bring this up at Emira [D’Spain]’s party, but we’re gonna have to figure that one out.”
But, they’re in a very good place today. “They didn’t know how I worked, and I didn’t really know how they worked,” Ava told Elite Daily. “Now that I understand more where everyone’s head is at, I know that their intentions weren’t malicious.”
Where does Ava Dash stand with her Next Gen NYC castmates?
She revealed to the outlet that she is very close to her cast members. “I was actually friends with these people beforehand, but now I can get paid to hang out with them. That, for me, is the best part of all of this,” she said.
Who is Ava Dash dating now?
Ava is currently single.
Ava Dash and Kyle Cooke’s connection, explained
Ava and In The City/Summer House cast member Kyle Cooke were spotted getting a drink together in March 2026, and Ava opened up about this meeting in her interview with Elite Daily. “When that came out, I had met him once, and he posted a photo of us and the caption was like, ‘next gen and old gen.’ So dad coded,” she said at the time. “I’m like, ‘This is not a thing.’ Now, I know him better, and he’s great, but at the time I was like, ‘Are we OK?'”
Kyle then appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen also in March, where he confirmed that nothing happened with Ava during their outing. “We were at a family dinner doing a family blessing, holding hands, so I was holding her [hand],” Kyle said. “It was just a random drinking day in New York.”
Since then, Ava and Kyle’s friendship has continued to blossom, as she revealed in a pair of interviews from July 2026. “We have gotten really close in the past couple months,” Ava explained to Us Weekly on July 1. “We have the same friend group. A lot of my best friends are also his best friends, so we’ve just been having fun.”
When the publication asked point-blank if she and Kyle were dating, Ava coyly responded, “What happens in the Hamptons stays in the Hamptons, for now.”
In a separate interview with Decider that was posted to Instagram on July 2, Ava referred to Kyle as being “a lot of fun” before offering some details on their group hangouts in the Hamptons. “He always takes the aux cord, and he’s always deejaying, and honestly, he kills it,” she said. “We just always have the best time. Yeah, it’s a lot of fun.”
What happened between Ava Dash and Shai Fruchter?
After developing a crush on Ava during Season 2, Shai finally “made a small move,” as he put it, during BravoCon 2025 weekend in Las Vegas. In Episode 8, Shai described their “harmless, flirtatious night,” but Ava painted a much different picture of what happened between them in her Vegas hotel room. By Ava’s account, Shai stopped by for a drink following a cast after-party that Charlie Zakkour hosted. While sitting on separate beds, he asked if he could kiss her. “And I said, ‘Ew, no,'” Ava recalled in a confessional. “Is that flirting now?”
What happened between Ava Dash and her boyfriend Hook?
Ava introduced her “new man,” Hook (real name Tyler Senerchia) to the group during the Next Gen NYC 1 finale. At the time, she told her father that Hook, who is a professional wrestler, already wanted her to move in with him. Fast-forward to the start of Season 2, and Ava and Hook were still together — but there was trouble in paradise.
“There’s just been some new developments, and I’m currently in my investigative era,” Ava revealed to her friends during Season 2, Episode 5. “So, I’ll be letting you know when there’s something to let you know about.”
In a confessional, she elaborated, “My boyfriend was out of town filming a movie, a short film. I haven’t gotten to see him since he’s been gone, and mm… I don’t know. I just have a gut feeling about something that I’m gonna need to talk to him about.”
By Season 2, Episode 6, Ava had talked to Hook and revealed the two ultimately broke up.
Post-split, Ava admitted in Episode 7 that she was still “not good,” but she pulled herself together enough to go apartment hunting. “There’s no chance of me staying in the apartment with my ex,” Ava explained. “I’m 100 percent moving out.”
