Brenda Dickson’s Jill Foster Abbott (Y&R) Out of Context for 4 1/2 Minutes

This is normally not the stuff I post. But I’m at a point where I feel I should post whatever I want on my socials.

Backstory: I grew up watching The Young and the Restless as a kid thanks to my mom and my grandparents. As a teenager, I became a regular viewer and recorded the show and watched it when I came home from school.

In my downtime, when I wasn’t catching up on the show’s actual run, I was sifting through old YouTube videos of the show’s heyday. I learned a great deal about the show’s history during the 1970’s, 80s and 90s.

I became absolutely enthralled with the first Jill Foster Abbott, Brenda Dickson. Unlike Jess Walton’s Jill who I watched growing up, Brenda’s Jill was opulent, melodramatic and campy. Clearly getting her acting chops from either shows like Dynasty, drag queens or both. She was a perfect addition to the show. Nailing deadpan one-liners, throwing out quips and insults to her nemesis, Katherine Chancellor, and sneaking her way up to the top where she wanted to be all along.

Brenda’s Jill was intriguing to watch and made me wish I existed during a time when she was on the show regularly. She was much more exciting, humorous and bitchy than Jess’ Jill.

But thanks to the advent of YouTube, many clips have surfaced of her run on Y&R. I thought it’d be hilarious to gather up most of these videos and pull the best lines and Brenda-isms to create this rather delightful video.

Of course, if any of the original uploaders would like me to take this down, I will be more than happy to! It’s not my intention to steal, just to showcase my favorite soap opera character and actress of all time!

I might start making these more often if I can. Perhaps next tackling Jamie Lynn Bauer as Lorie Brooks, who was also as dramatic and could even be as campy as Brenda as well!