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NEWS ARCHIVES See also: Raul Guittierez Brittany Hodges Billy Abbott Mac Browning Teens August 1999 Who Sold
Alcohol To Underage Teenagers? September 1999 Dope Found At Party! Police Break Up
Party February 2000 School
Fighting Unpunished The fight apparently broke out when Raul charged J.T. with being a low-life for not calling 911 to report the alcohol overdose of Billy Abbott. The fight was broken up by an unidentified teacher. School officials told the Genoa City News the school imposes no sanctions for school violence. May 2000 The Big School Prom! Also in attendance will be Billy Abbott and Brittany Hodges who plan to go to the event together. "Can you guess who the prom queen will be", a titillated Hodges asked a Genoa City News reporter. Well no, the GCNews can't imagine but does hope the scene won't be a replay of the time Nick and Sharon Newman won the Moi Wahine King and Queen title a few years ago at an equally brain dead event. "It's gonna be me!", Hodges hooted when no answer to her question was volunteered. However, the GCNews has it on good authority that the fix is in. Don't be surprised if Browning takes home the title. Sex Secrets Revealed! So what is it with these kids? Do teenagers really give up their sexual history so easily? Will Raul and Billy be comparing penis sizes next? Why aren't they ever in class and where are those hall monitors? History File (Genoa City) -- Phillip Chancellor would occasionally guzzle a couple of drinks when he got edgy because he thought the booze calmed him down and helped him overcome his shyness. For Phillip, it was just a social thing. What people didn't know at the time was that Chancellor had been spiking his own drinks at a party one night. While driving Jabot model Cricket Blair home from the party, he ran a stop sign and smashed into another car. Afraid Chancellor would go to jail for DUI, Blair switched seats with him before the cops arrived on the scene and took the blame for the accident. As a result, Blair almost lost her job, until Chancellor confessed and vowed to kick his habit. It was hard, but he finally got his act together. As time went on, Chancellor ended up with a good life. He had a new wife, Nina Webster, a young son he adored and a great life to look forward to as heir to the Chancellor fortune. But he still had a drinking problem. Chancellor went to Alcoholics Anonymous, but he wasn't like other people there. What were a few drinks among friends? That's what was going through his mind when he and his coworkers celebrated a business deal by cracking open a bottle of champagne. After sucking down his share, Chancellor headed home, excited to tell his wife the good news. He should have known better than to get behind the wheel in his condition but drunks can't think when they're tanked. This time, Chancellor never made it home. He crashed his car, holding on just !ong enough to tell his wife and baby Phillip how much he loved them. Another
Teenage Beer Party Brewing! Another No Last Name Teen! Hodges was heard thanking Mrs. Abbott for giving her another chance where Billy Abbott is concerned when Rianna interrupted to say one of the senior girls, certain to be crowned this years Prom Queen, will be off at a college dance with her boyfriend which means Hodges will have an excellent chance of being the queen. Hodges agreed she's a hot babe but she can't do it alone. "If Billy is my date he’ll have a good chance of being prom king. I hope you’ll let him go", Hodges hinted prompting Mrs. Abbott to assure Hodges she and Billy’s father will give serious thought to allowing their son to attend the prom. As an afterthought, Mrs. Abbott asked Hodges, "You use Glow by Jabot don’t you?" Hodges quickly replied, "Of course I do." Those magic words were music to Mrs. Abbott's ears. "You’ll hear from me soon. Breakfast is on me ladies." June 2000 Teen Kids Excited As Prom Night Nears Equally excited, Billy Abbott checked in with his no last name pal, Raul, with a phrase from the 50's. "Do you dig this?" Raul confirmed his jubilation but had more important things on his mind. First, Raul is worried the parents won't allow the girls to live alone this summer and second, Raul has a need to get a job. Meanwhile, Mackenzie Browning was seen asking her pals to help pick out prom dresses which surprised the girls. They didn’t know a plain Jane like Browning would be so interested in something like a prom. When Browning confirmed she even surprised herself, the girls asked Browning why she doesn't run for prom queen and ask Raul to run for the title of king. Browning shook her head negatively. Walnut Grove Students Excited! Cody, one of many people in Genoa City with no last names, reports Walnut Grove Academy students spend most of their time lately asking if student Brittany Hodges has any news from Jabot about becoming the newest Jabot spokesmodel. "That Hodges girl is pretty certain she's going to be the prom queen this year. I heard she's called her mother in New York to arrange a shopping spree for prom dresses there. You know how this city sucks when it comes to fashion", Cody added. "That Browning girl may give Hodges a run for her money. I've heard she and that Raul guy are entering the competition. Personally, I don't think she's got a chance with that sour puss. But, I also hear Lauren Fenmore is going to get her a special dress so that could be the straw that breaks the camel's back", Cody said. As School Prom Ends, Jill Abbott Gets The Dirt! However, what nobody seemed to realize was that Brendon and J.T., two of many WGA students with no last names, were plotting to make Rianna prom queen. While a Jabot Cosmetics film crew maneuvered for vantage points the students proposed a toast to Rianna. Another no last name student suddenly figured out what was going on and told his no last name date Pam, "They’re trying to make Rianna the winner." Not to be fooled, Pam replied, "She’s still part of the same of snooty clique." Just then a hush fell over the room as Browning and Raul appeared at the top of a stairway. Browning, dressed in a white Paris gown with white bag, began descending the stairs with Raul. As the students broke out in applause. J.T. mumbled to Rianna, "Mac may look pretty but she’s the same old dork." Under her breath, Rianna said, "She’s no dork." Later, the dean announced the King and Queen winners and suggested the film crew shoot Abbott and Browning together. As Browning was crowned, Hodges ran to the bathroom with Raul in close pursuit. Hodges couldn't understand what went wrong. Outraged, Jabot executive Jill Abbott blamed Lauren Fenmore for destroying everything.
Abbott demanded a re-shoot but Jack and Ashley Abbott were pleased that an
"underdog" beat the competition. July 2000 GLOW BY JABOT WEB SITE
DEBUTS! Red, white and blue balloons hung in the air, colored streamers were everywhere and the champagne flowed freely as word quickly spread that web site expert Phyllis Summers had launched the Glow by Jabot web site. "Getting the site on-line was a high priority for us. We need to promote the Glow summer line of products and couldn't think of a better advertising campaign," Chief Operating Officer Jack Abbott told the Genoa City News. Asked if it's a bit late to be pushing summer products Abbott admitted the web site did get up and running late in the game. "It's not a big deal. The goal was to get the site running. By the time summer ends we will have worked out all the bugs and be better prepared to focus on the Winter campaign." A Jabot press release listed the site's URL as www.glowbyjabot.com but a "page cannot be found" error message was returned when the URL was entered into popular web browsers. The Genoa City News ran a search for the owner of the URL and obtained the name of Ben Labadie a person residing in Chatham, Canada. "Did you try jabotbyglow," a Jabot spokesperson suggested. That URL didn't work either and was unlisted. The URL www.jabot.com failed as well and www.jabotcosmetics.com was not operating but was registered by Cabell Curran from New York. "Gosh, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe we're on an Intranet," was the only solution the Jabot spokesperson could offer. UPDATE: Jabot got back to us with the correct URL. August 2000 TEEN BEHAVIOR ANGERS SOME
READERS! The complaints focused on young Abbott, who some think needs medical attention for a case of bad zits and perhaps an exercise regimen to lose a flabby belly, lathering Hodges up with suntan oil. The emphasis on Hodges rear end accompanied by deep sexual moaning as her eyes fluttered at Abbott as if to say, "Oh Billy, take me now", seemed to bother readers the most. Equally disgusting to some was the constant butt pulling on female bathing suits which appeared to be about two sizes too small. Overall, the behavior of these young kids was said to be disgusting and disturbing. "These teenagers are being watched very closely by many other impressionable teens and should be sending a message that having sex out of wedlock, if that is their inevitable goal, is not cool anymore," said GCNews reader Lori Wells. As the Genoa City News reported last week, one of the many teens in Genoa City with no last name, J.T., will get Hodges drunk and into the sack soon and will later try to use the indiscretion against her. Editor's note: It's bad enough the adults in this city have sex with whomever seems convenient at the moment. Sex at the office is rampant and in some cases the participants don't even clean up after the dirty deed is done. The Winters clan swapping family members is a good example, Do the teenagers need to start sleeping around too? Part of the problem with America today is that too many children don't know their parents and vice-versa. The traditional family has gone the way of the horse and buggy because ignorance is promoted as something to be proud of. SEXUAL INDISCRETIONS TAKE TOLL! At the Abbott pool house here Tuesday, no last name J.T. preyed on Brittany Hodges' insecurities while at the same time shoving a flask filled with booze under her nose until she began sipping. As a tipsy Hodges whined how teen love interest Billy Abbott isn't treating her right, J.T. moved closer until his nose was in her ear. The situation became so hot it's a wonder the smoke detectors didn't go off. Soon, Hodges was buttoning her blouse and J.T. was putting his shirt back on. The dirty deed done, Hodges proclaimed, "This didn’t happen. I had a little too much to drink and lost control." Hodges departed the scene in a taxi but a buzzing J.T. jumped behind the wheel and drove himself off. It is unknown whether a condom was used. In a related development, fashion model Dru Winters informed her daughter, Lily, there would be no return to Paris. Her world-wide modeling career apparently over, Mrs. Winters explained why they would not be living with the child's father, Neil Winters. "I thought we could live like a family", a disappointed Lily Winters sniveled. Meantime, Neil Winters blasted his brother today for having sex with his former wife. Malcolm Winters couldn't understand - what's the problem? The feelings he and Dru Winters are experiencing "came out of the blue". Hell, family members feel like this all the time! Neil Winters almost smacked his wife-swapping brother in the mouth but was saved by a knock on the door. Dru and Lily Winters had arrived to say good-bye. Website Finale! Pleased the website has increased sales, Jabot honcho Jack Abbott voiced concern that America has become, "A nation of voyeurs" and will shut the site down. As part of the website finale, Jabot plans a twenty-four hour net feed along the lines of Big Brother. During the Labor Day weekend the 'Glow kids' will stay at the Abbott house and the best video clips from the summer will be broadcast as streaming video. September 2000 Caught In The Act! With the support of Phyllis Summers and minutes before shooting on the Glow by Jabot Website resumes, Hodges is expected to pull Browning aside and drop a bomb. She and Abbott have been sleeping together all summer and the two have something very special planned for the evening. Hodges puts her plan into motion by persuading Rianna Miner to leave her alone with Abbott in the pool house. She slips sleeping pills into Abbott's coffee and encourages him to drink it because he's been complaining about being tired. Hodges begins to seduce her man and under the watchful eye of Ms. Summers, slyly turns off the camera. When Browning returns from a break, Summers will tell her something is wrong with the feed from inside the pool house and ask Browning to check it out. Up until this point, Browning hasn't been certain of Hodges' claims. However, when she enters the pool house and sees the two of them together, in what appears to be a compromising position, all she knows is what she sees with her own two eyes. November 2000 New Crisis
Needed! The straw that broke the camel's back surfaced recently when Browning told Abbott their romance would never move on because of Abbott's drinking and her mother's possible involvement. Supposedly under surveillance, Amanda Browning has never shown up and Billy Abbott's drinking, like the rest of this alliance, fizzled out. The problem with having to tell so many lies is that the person telling the lies has to have the ability to remember them in detail. A trait neither Abbott nor Browning possess. When Phyllis Summers got into the mix by backing Brittany Hodges lies, Abbott began to trust Hodges again but he still doesn't know she may end up pregnant with JT's baby. The little Twit had sex with JT and it's not clear if birth control was in place. Bottom line: It's going to take some time for the truth to come out and that may never happen unless something like a crisis comes along to get this stalled out teenage love back on track. Return
Of Glow Site? For seemingly endless weeks last summer, teens Billy Abbott, Brittany Hodges, Rianna Miner and no last name Raul, lounged around the Abbott residence pool pouring sun tan oil on each other, babbled about their empty relationships and ended the summer with a 'live' web cast. Jabot's co-owner, Jill Abbott, announced Wednesday that while sales of the Men's line are up, Glow sales are down and hinted the company may have to light a fire under the Glow web site again. December 2000 Glow Site Return! Although the elder Abbott's proposition interrupted a steamy necking session between Abbott and Hodges, the teenagers promptly trekked to local hangout Newman Rocks where Hodges sought input from former Glow girl, Rianna Miner. While no immediate comment was forthcoming from Miner, observers believe the teens will reach an agreement since it has become widely known that former Glow guy Raul has a need to earn some extra money for Christmas. Glow Is A Go! A decision to reinstate the site was reached when Jabot executives determined a web site with 'live' web casts would boost holiday sales. Glow Winners Announced! The winners included: Kristin Nagle, from Austin TX., Lydia Chen, from Honolulu HI, Ricky Genaro, from Boston MA and Andre Jefferson, from Los Angeles CA. All four received notification at the same time, managed to make airline reservations, pack their bags and arrive in Genoa City at about the same time. The lucky four were also fortunate to be privy to sporadic bickering in their presence by Jabot co-owner, Jill Abbott. Web Site Wrapping Up? January 2001 Web Casts, Are
They Over? The gigantic web cast culminated with the selection of four 'winners' of a chat room contest who were flown into Genoa City from as far away as Hawaii. At a moments notice, the winners were announced, airline reservations made during the busy holiday season and all arrived in Genoa City at the same time only to disappear hours later. A Jabot spokesperson told the Genoa City News the company was pleased with the amount of "hits" the web site received and cosmetics sales were said to have soared. Asked if the New Year's Eve event would be the last, Jabot had no comment. Teens In Service! A shelter spokesperson who identified himself only as 'Ned' says the teens will tutor homeless teens on the use of computers. 'Ned' refused to answer persistent questions as to why teens, many appearing to be under 18, are allowed to stay at the shelter and why the shelter does not notify authorities. February 2001 02.14.01 April 2001 Teens Spill Guts To
Cops! The questioning of Brittany Hodges and a classmate known only as J.T. was conducted at Newman Rocks, a local coffee shop by day, club for all ages by night, by District Attorney Glenn Richards and police detective Mario Edmonds after a search of the shop's overflowing dumpster. Their find undoubtedly some of the most remarkable police work ever, Edmonds and Richards informed Hodges they knew she might help their investigation because the 2 pills she tossed into the trash the night drug dealer Jordan Senters died were wrapped with a credit card receipt. Without reading Hodges her rights, the DA promised, "You won't get into trouble. All we want is information" and then listened as Hodges told of purchasing Ecstasy from J.T. Edmonds and Richards later probed J.T. who also unknowingly waived his rights and admitted purchasing drugs from Senters. Based on the questioning Richards announced a direct link between the coffee shop owner and the drugs resulting in Senters death has been established. Accordingly, murder charges against Nick Newman will be sought. Last
Names Surface 'Spring Break' Trip
Busted! Even before the cancellation had become public, Jabot's psychedelic webmaster, Sean Bridges, reported visitors to the Glow by Jabot website "are disappointed with the delay. They are complaining and flaming. They think we are trying to scam them." As a major portion of its Spring advertising campaign the company had originally planned to parade high school students known as Glow Worms along a Florida beach half-naked while rubbing each other with various chemically charged oils. Website visitors were anticipating hours of streaming video during which the female worms would pull swim suits out of butt cracks and close-ups of male worms oily zits. Meantime, competitor Rash and Sassy Cosmetics was pleased with the news. "We're kicking Jabot’s butt. Jabot is dead at the starting gate. It's great for us. They’ll never be able to make this up," said excited R&S webmaster, Phyllis Summers. Cosmetics Firm
Belly Up? The Glow by Jabot website had planned streaming video coverage of teenagers known as Glow Worms walking along the beach wearing next to nothing, smearing suntan lotion on one another and close-ups of female teens pulling portions of swimsuits out of butt cracks. Parent company, Jabot Cosmetics, has invested a majority of its ad budget into the event which now seems doomed. However, at the eleventh hour, webmaster Sean Bridges may have come up with a plan thought certain to save the company. Reporting the Glow site is still receiving lots of "hits" due to a story about a sick Worm, Bridges announced a plan to use the story of Raul Guittierez to keep teenaged web surfers interested. One of four Glow Worms, Guittierez remains hospitalized with diabetes. The tragedy was so intense the other three Worms were unable to go on the road putting Jabot Cosmetics at risk. Bridges is confident that putting the Guittierez story on the website "will give everyone information about diabetes" and since teenagers cannot get their heads filled with enough medical information will flock to the site. "It’s the interaction that keeps readers coming back," Bridges said. May 2001 Estranged for what seems like an eternity, the teenagers are expected to get back together when the couple become trapped in an office elevator. An elaborate ploy based on critical timing by Jabot Cosmetics CEO Jack Abbott, Billy Abbott's big brother will arrange for the elevator to become stuck. While waiting to be rescued, the teens will come to realize they were meant for each other. The romantic reunion will shut down, for the summer at least, the verbal abattoir which has been full of he loves me, he loves me not, I'm so confused, can a man have sex and not know it banter. Born in 1993, William Foster Abbott is the son of Genoa City socialites John and Jill Abbott. June 2001 Teen Will Be Glowing! In a country where less than one-tenth of one-percent of these girls will attain their goal, it's a similar but different story in Genoa City. In the mini-megalopolis, young females aspire to represent the Jabot Cosmetics faux web-site as Glow Worms. But the job requires special skills many teens simply do not possess. The ability to lounge by a pool pulling out parts of a bikini wedged into a butt crack cannot be learned overnight. As a result, many apply but few are chosen. In an amazing roll of the dice, Walnut Grove Academy student Brittany Hodges beat the odds on Wednesday. Breezing through the grueling application process, Hodge's had only to convince the newest worm, Mackenzie Browning, and Browning's zit-backed boyfriend, Billy Abbott, that she would keep her nose clean and not make them regret selecting her. Upon hearing her dream had come true, Hodges was flabbergasted. "Don't worry. Gosh no, they'll never regret this," Hodges smiled. July 2001 Glow by Jabot
News Company co-owner Jill Abbott, pressed hard for what she wanted and in the end things went her way when top worm, Billy Abbott, with some serious convincing by girlfriend Mackenzie Browning, conceded his mother's desire. Webmaster Sean Bridges cautioned Mrs. Abbott her plan to break up young Abbott and Browning could backfire. However, Mrs. Abbott didn't seem to care saying that even if things turn sour it will make for an interesting summer. Glow Boutique
Opens! Mastermind behind the boutique, Jabot webmaster Sean Bridges prepared the Glow Worms by reminding them they are "stars" who "fans" have waited months to meet. The Worms were advised to be nice and the fans would love them. After giving out a Glow Worm cheer, doors were opened and shoppers flocked inside to be greeted by the Worms. Some bargain hunters were fortunate enough to be given personal Glow product demonstrations while others shared diabetic experiences with veteran Glow Worm, Raul Guittierez. A few lucky shoppers were given a real live look at the computer where the Glow Worms conduct 'live' chats. Reports that one female "fan", who had spent the night camped out on the sidewalk, fainted when boutique doors opened could not be confirmed. September 2001 Back to school? Same for Billy Abbott. Is this kid going to repeat his senior year? By the time Abbott gets into college he'll be eligible for Social Security! One thing if for certain. The time to change the lives of these snot-nosed, big-attitude, big-mouthed, small-patience, small-mentality, hormonally charged juvenile delinquents is long overdue. October 2001 Teens return to
school! Time for teens to go! The act of stupidity pointed out again how totally moronic the focus on teenage love has become. Teens fall in and out of love and while never pretty, romance in Genoa City should be left to the adults. Drugs, drinking, absentee parents, dysfunctional families, guns in school, teenage sex, alternate lifestyles, peer pressure, eating disorders, even how to get rid of zits would be more realistic teen related issues. Until these issues are addressed, the teens in this city should be seen but not heard. |
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