William Foster Abbott
Actor History
Katrin and Margret Ingimarsdottir (July to August 1993; recurring)
Brett Sherman (August to November 1993; recurring)
Shane Silver (December 1993 to August 1995; recurring)
Blake Pontello (1994 to 1995; recurring)
Josh Michael Rose (July 1995 to June 1996; recurring)
Scotty Leavenworth (1996 to 1998; recurring)
David Tom (June 1999 to August 15th, 2002; contract)
Ryan Brown (26 December 2002 to 16 July 2003; contract)
Scott Seymour (August 15th, 2006 to November 3, 2006)
Lifeline
Born 1993
Returned from boarding school in 1999 SORAS'd to 16
Nicknames
Billy
Occupation
NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, Hong Kong
Former Business Major at Genoa City University
Works part time in the mail room at Jabot Cosmetics
Former bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami
Worked with Katrina Hurricane reconstruction in New Orleans
Attended one semester Genoa City University while working part time at the Glow By Jabot Boutique
Spent the summer after high school as volunteer building houses for the poor in Louisiana
Graduate of Walnut Grove Academy
Former "Glow By Jabot Kid" for Jabot Cosmetics
Resides At
Ji Min Kim's penthouse in Hong Kong, China
Marital Status
Single
Past Marriages
MacKenzie Browning (annulled)
Relatives
John Abbott (father, deceased)
Jill Foster (mother)
Jack Abbott (paternal half-brother)
Traci Abbott (paternal half-sister)
Phillip Chancellor III (maternal half-brother)
Robert Abbott (grandfather; deceased)
William Foster (grandfather; via adoption; deceased)
Elizabeth Foster (grandmother; via adoption)
Arthur Hendricks (biological grandfather)
Katherine Shepard (biological grandmother)
Greg Foster (uncle; via adoption)
William 'Snapper' Foster (uncle; via adoption)
Jennifer Elizabeth Foster (cousin; via adoption)
Pierre Charles Roulland (cousin; via adoption)
Brock Reynolds (half-uncle)
Mackenzie Browning (half-cousin)
Keemo Volien Abbott (half-nephew)
Kyle Jenkins (half-nephew)
Colleen Cecile Carlton (half-niece)
Abby Carlton (thinks she is his niece)
Phillip Chancellor IV (half-nephew)
Children
None
Flings & Affairs
Brittany Hodges
Mackenzie Browning
Crimes Committed
Underage drinking, charges were dropped.
Brief Character History
Shortly after her second marriage to John Abbot, Jill wanted to have a baby, though John felt he was too old. But Jill managed to get pregnant, and John insisted she have an abortion while he got a vasectomy. Jill couldn't do it, and gave birth to William "Billy" Abbott, whom John eventually accepted and came to love. Jill's affair with Jed Sanders, due to John's later impotency, caused their second divorce, which resulted in a bitter custody battle over Billy and a stroke for John. With Billy's best friend Raul Guittierez, growing up in Genoa City was enjoying sports and boy scouts. Once John recovered from his stroke, he and Billy moved to New York City where Billy attended Jr. high school.
John and Billy returned to Genoa City in time for his sophomore year of high school. Raul, Brittany Hodges, MacKenzie Browning, J.T. Hellstrom, Rianna Miner and Billy were friends as they attended Walnut Grove Academy. Billy began dating snobby rich girl, Brittany. Billy bragged of his experience in New York City with drinking, partying and girls. One evening J.T., another expert partier, invited everyone to a party at a house he was house-sitting. Raul showed up in time to save best friend Billy's life when he suffered alcohol poisoning and collapsed in the snow, as Brittany nor JT were willing to call 911 and get themselves in trouble. At that time, MacKenzie and Billy did not get along at all. But she stayed at his bedside and prayed that he would be all right. That was the start of what became a wonderful high school romance.
Billy swore off alcohol after his near death experience. Then came the Jr. Prom. Billy and Brittany were supposed to be a shoe-in, but when the votes were counted, Billy and Mac were crowned King and Queen. Only then when they danced together at the prom, did they realize how much they cared about each other. Unfortunately Jill noticed too, much to her horror, that her son could be smitten with Katherine Chancellor's granddaughter. Billy showed up at the Chancellor's later, and he and Mac told each other how they felt, and kissed. Jill began threatening to find runaway Mac's mother if she became involved with Billy. So Mac and Billy began meeting in secret in the Abbott children's old playhouse. He gave her an opal ring to seal their love.
Billy, Brittany, Raul and Rianna were chosen as the Glow by Jabot Kids as a promotion for the new Jabot teen line. Mac assisted Phyllis Summers running the website featuring the kids. Brittany discovered that Billy was involved with Mac, so arranged for Mac to walk in on her and Billy "making love." Billy was drugged and Britt was faking it, but Mac believed what she saw and it broke her heart. Billy tried to defend himself, but couldn't remember what happened. Local bad boy, JT, spilled it that it was setup for Mac to see, but no one realized that Billy was drugged. Brittany was hurt, but eventually took Billy back. Raul realized Mac was not the one who had her heart, and split up with Mac, moving on to Rianna. Mac and Billy began being drawn to each other again, but it wasn't until Jack arranged for Billy and Mac to be trapped in an elevator at Jabot that they realized that they truly belonged together. Although Billy did his best to be a jerk to turn Mac away "for her own good", they eventually reconciled and became a couple again. Jill made peace with it, once she realized what a bad choice Britt was for Billy.
Things went fine for Billy and MacKenzie for several months. He helped her admit that she ran away from St. Louis because her step father Ralph had molested her, and her mother wouldn't believe it. Senior year began, and a holiday series of the Glow By Jabot website added J.T. and Mac to the Glow Kids. The scene changed to Jabot where a boutique opened which was run by the kids. Billy's niece, Colleen, was falling into drugs and hanging with the wrong kids in New York City, so was banished to her Grandfather John's in Genoa City. Billy helped his father by keeping an eye on her at school.
After the holidays, Billy realized that he was ready for more from his relationship with MacKenzie. When he shared his feelings with her, he tried to avoid pressuring her, but couldn't accept her insistence that she was not ready and should wait. As a result, the two of them broke up. They got over the trauma became friends. Then Mac's Step-Father, Ralph, showed up in Genoa City and began stalking her. He coerced Mac's Mom, Amanda, into helping him steal from the Chancellor Estate. Amanda let him into the mansion while all were at the prom, but Mac returned home unexpectedly and much to her horror, was met by Ralph. Billy arrived on the scene as Ralph was about to molest Mac again, confronted him, and whacked Ralph over the head with a fireplace poker. Thinking he had killed Ralph, Billy took Mac to hide out in their special place, the old Abbott playhouse. Thinking they were doomed, Billy and Mac realized they still loved each other. Ralph kidnapped Kay after she returned from chaperoning at the prom, and tied her up in a motel room. Ralph, disguised as a cop, talked Raul into telling him places where he might find them. Meanwhile Larry Warton found and rescued Kay. Ralph showed up at the playhouse too late, but found them at a campsite where Raul and Billy used to play as kids. Ralph knocked out Billy by whacking him over the head with a rock and grabbed Mac, but our hero Larry showed up in time to rescue her. Larry and Ralph fought, and just before the police arrived, both ended up going over a cliff to the lakeshore below, . The next morning Ralph came to and tried to kill an unconscious Larry with a rock. Scared away by the arrival of the police, Ralph disappeared into the bushes. Larry recovered with minor injuries and major thanks from Billy's mother Jill for saving her son's life. Because Jill had video evidence that Amanda had stolen her jewels, and after nearly getting both her own daughter and Jill's son killed, Amanda agreed to leave town if Jill would drop the charges.
After all he went through that summer, Billy decided he needed to do more with his life than go to college, so he left for Louisiana to help Mac's father, Brock, build houses for the poor. He and his mother Jill shared a tearful parting although Jill felt he was making a mistake. Mac and Billy parted tearfully as well, declaring their love and promising each other this is not the end of them. Mac left Genoa City that fall to attend Northwestern University. Both Billy and Mac returned to Genoa City for Christmas, and decided to attend GCU and share a loft apartment with Raul and Brittany. By spring Billy had proposed and Mac and Billy were to be married with Raul Gutierrez as best man and Colleen Carlton as maid of honor. But with the reveal that Billy's mother Jill's actual birth mother was Katherine Chancellor, their lives were shattered when they realized they were cousins. Mac and Billy both left town on their own, devastated by the news.
Billy spent a year working on the Katrina Hurricane disaster recovery in New Orleans, then some time as a bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami. He returned to Genoa City in 2006 to attend his father John's funeral. Jill and Katherine encouraged him to stay and claim his legacy as both a Chancellor and and Abbott by learning the business of Chancellor Industries and Jabot Cosmetics. Billy relented and began attending GCU as a business major and working his way up at Jabot from the mail room. Turned out that Billy had a bad gambling habit, and that he still owed some bookies in Miami a lot of money, so when no one would give him any, he stole and pawned an antique scrimshaw from the Chancellor estate. Kay discovered it and told Jill and Jack, so they gave him a job as NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, and shipped him off to Hong Kong.
