The Young and the Restless star Jason Thompson continues to celebrate his 10th anniversary of playing Billy Abbott. He recently sat down to look back on some of Billy’s moments in which the character was mired in sudsy drama!
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The Abbott family united on The Young and the Restless
While Thompson began airing in 2016, the character of John Abbott, played by the late, great Jerry Douglas, was killed off in 2006. He returned to the show many times, first as Alistair Wallingford (John Abbott’s doppelganger), and then as a spirit of some sort. John was either a figment of his children’s imaginations or he was an actual apparition who appeared to his loved ones to give them support and an understanding ear.
“I only did one scene with [Jerry, in 2016] and he was a ghost,” Thompson recalls. “We talk about our dad quite a bit [on the show], and I only ended up doing one scene with him, which was great. Thank you! Here’s to another 10!”
Thompson did get to work with Douglas’s widow, Kym Douglas, when she appeared on the show as Traci’s book editor, Zelda Wilford, and a friend of the Abbott family in 2023. The show included flashbacks of John Abbott in the episode in which Kym appeared.
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