Jill Foster Abbott
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Jill Foster Brooks Abbott Abbott is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. The part is currently played by Jess Walton since 1987 and was previously played by Brenda Dickson, Bond Gideon, Deborah Adair, Judith Chapman and Melinda Fee. Interestingly, Jill was played by Judith Chapman (who now plays Gloria on the show) for a few days when Walton was sick in the late 1980s.
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CEO of Jabot Cosmetics (formerly the head of Jabot's Men's Line), ex-wife of multi-millionaire John Abbott (Jerry Douglas) and mother of Billy Abbott (Scott Seymour) and the late Phillip Chancellor III. Jill is an ambitious and driven woman who has taken herself from the wrong side of the tracks to the executive office of one of Genoa City's most prestigious corporations.
Jill started off as a hairdresser who became friends with Katherine "Kay" Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper). Katherine, an alcoholic, was in an unhappy marriage to Phillip Chancellor II. Jill and Phillip fell in love and Jill became pregnant with Phillip's child. Phillip was subsequently killed in a car crash caused by a drunken Kay, marrying Jill on his deathbed. However, Phillip's divorce from Kay was declared invalid and Jill was left nothing from Phillip's estate. The rivalry between Katherine and Jill became one of the core elements of the show for many years to come.
Jill, at times, has been a promiscuous woman and has had affairs with numerous male characters, notably Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman), Blade Bladeson (Michael Tylo), Rex Sterling (Quinn K. Redeker), Larry Warton (David "Shark" Fralick), Victor Newman (Eric Braeden), and John Silva (John Castellanos).
Until 2003, it was always thought that Jill was the youngest child of William and Elizabeth Foster. But it was then revealed that Jill had been adopted. Jill's biological mother was none other than the person she hated most in the world, Katherine Chancellor! The revelation caused Katherine to have a stroke, and Jill was forced to nurse her mother back to health. Soon after Katherine recovered, she and Jill mended fences.
Currently, Jill is dating William Bardwell (Ted Shackleford), the District Attorney who had just inherited a fortune from his late uncle; however, she may end up having unexpected competition from Gloria Abbott (Judith Chapman), who also seems to have her eye on him as well.
