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)
• Billy J. Miller (September 22, 2008 to present)
Lifeline
Born 1993
Returned from boarding school in 1999 and was said to be 16
Nicknames
Liam
Billy
Occupation
Jabot Director of Marketing
Former NVP/Jabot Liaison for House of Kim, Hong Kong
Former Business Major at Genoa City University
Worked part time in the mail room at Jabot Cosmetics
Former bartender at Sammy Seagull's Sandpit Bar & Grill in Miami
Worked with Hurricane Katrina reconstruction in New Orleans
Attended one semester at Genoa City University while working part time at the Glo By Jabot Boutique
Spent the summer after high school as volunteer building houses for the poor in Louisiana
Graduate of Walnut Grove Academy
Former "Glo By Jabot Kid" for Jabot Cosmetics
Resides At
Unknown
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 AKA Cane Ashby (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
Several flings & affairs while working in Hong Kong
Chloe Mitchell
Amber Moore
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 junior 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 Billy suffered alcohol poisoning and collapsed in the snow, as neither Brittany nor JT was willing to call 9-1-1 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 Junior 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 Chancellors' 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 Glo 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, J.T., 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 stepfather Ralph had molested her, and her mother wouldn't believe it. Senior year began, and a holiday series of the Glo 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 she 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 and became friends. Then Mac's stepfather, 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 Billy and Mac. Meanwhile Larry Warton found and rescued Kay. Ralph showed up at the playhouse too late, but found the kids 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 was 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 Hurricane Katrina 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 an 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 mailroom. It 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.
Billy returned in 2008 as "Liam", the mystery-lover of Amber Moore who showed up on her arm at Daniel Romalotti's art showing in New York City. Billy says he uses the name Liam to pick up chicks, is over his gambling addiction, and travels the world, often to Los Angeles where he hangs out with the stars. Much to Daniel’s distaste, Billy proceeded to buy all the Amber drawings which had not already sold. Daniel, still not over Amber and never a fan of Billy, is concerned that he is a player and will break her heart.
Chloe told Cane that her father rejected her mother before she was born. She had this worn dirty stuffed giraffe named Elmer she carried around until her mother changed out her room when she became a teen throwing out everything she loved, replacing it with a white bear. She told how she was stuck in boarding school and was ashamed of her mother being a maid. She had legally changed her name before her arrival in Genoa City. Cane is mostly tolerating Chloe and still pining for Lily. Chloe told Ester she would never get over her resentment for being shipped off to boarding school all her life, but Esther said she did it for her own good, so she wouldn't end up like her. Chloe told her that a guy who was selfish, arrogant, and unfaithful broke her heart (obviously Billy) and she would never love anyone else again, including Cane. From flashbacks it is obvious that Billy is the father of Chloe’s baby and that she set up their first meeting in New York City. They had an affair, she got into his email, discovered that he cheated on her breaking her heart, then she stalked him. Yet Billy was still her occasional “bootycall” up until she discovered she was pregnant.
Billy reunited with his mother Jill and finally met her other son, his half-brother Cane. Billy's other half-brother Jack convinced him to move back to Genoa City and help him get Jabot back into the Abbott family, and get back at Cane for usurping his life, by going to work at Jabot again. Cane invited Billy and "his girlfriend" over for drinks to get to know him and his wife Chloe, unaware that his ex-wife Amber was Billy's girlfriend, and that Chloe has a past with Billy. Billy confronted Chloe the next day accusing her of just wanting to bag a Chancellor. Billy is trying to convince Cane that he doesn't mind that Cane has taken over Jabot, and Cane talked Billy into taking the Director of Marketing position, with emphasis on the new teen line Starblaze.
Meanwhile Katherine was having some recurring memory loss, but covering it up pretty well. Gloria took advantage, pulling tricks to convince Kay she was losing it, in an attempt to get enough of Kay's Jabot stock to have controlling interest. Luckily Jill caught and stopped them, just as Kay was signing over the stock. Esther, Cane, and Jill are wondering if Kay is still capable of driving, let alone overseeing Chancellor and Jabot even with Jill and Cane in charge of each. Kay responded to Jill’s taking away her keys by drinking again.
Billy found out that Lily Winters was trying computer dating, so he became a guy online who calls himself Sonny Crawford, whom Lily has become quite enamored with.
