Bond Gideon was an actress in the late 1970's and early 1980's, with most of her work on television shows. She was the second Jill Foster Abbott on the Young and the Restless in 1980. Jess Walton as Jill Foster Abbott Jill Foster Brooks Abbott Abbott is a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. ... The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R) is an American soap opera that takes place in Genoa City, Wisconsin (named after a vacation spot that series creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell visited annually). ...