Gloria Bardwell
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Gloria Bardwell is a fictional character
, a resident of Genoa City on the CBS
daytime drama The Young and the Restless
. The role was originated by Joan Van Ark
who played the role from April 6, 2004 to January 7, 2005, and is currently portrayed by Judith Chapman
, who assumed the role on January 14, 2005. By 2011, Judith Chapman was dropped as a series regular to a recurring character. Most of the storylines regarding Gloria involve her marriage to John Abbott
, Jeffrey Bardwell
, and schemes involving her sons Michael Baldwin
and Kevin Fisher
. She has also developed a strong rivalry with Jack and Ashley Abbott
. More recently, she and Jeffrey opened the city's favorite club, Gloworm.
, goes to her for help. She becomes romantically involved with John Abbott, Sr
. They soon marry. She hides the identities of her sons Kevin and Michael Baldwin
because John does not like them, particularly Kevin who is an internet predator
who attempted to murder John's granddaughter Colleen Carlton
among other crimes. John eventually finds out and is angry. After Kevin saves John's life he comes to accept his wife's family. Gloria has to contend with John's two oldest children, who reside in the Abbott Mansion. His daughter Ashley does not like Gloria, viewing her as a schemer and scam artist, only after John's money, while his son Jack, realizing that Gloria makes his father happy, is more accepting.
Tom Fisher, Gloria's second husband and Kevin's father, comes to town, revealing that, unbeknownst to Gloria, their divorce was never finalized, and they are, in fact, still married (thus invalidating Gloria's marriage to John). Tom begins blackmailing Gloria by threatening to reveal to John that she and Tom are still married. She gives into the blackmail, which includes giving him money and occasionally helping him romantically pursue John's daughter Ashley Abbott
. John finds out about this and confronts Tom with a gun. He accidentally shoots and kills him. After a bout of memory loss of the event (during which Ashley falsely confesses to thd crime to protect her father), John remembers the events and confesses that it was, in fact, he who killed Tom. He is conficted, despite the extenuating circumstance, and is sent to prison. Before his incarceration, he leaves Gloria his Jabot proxy.
While Ashley has never cared for Gloria, after John's incarceration, his son Jack begins to also resent her, blaming her for his father's troubles and his imprisonment. In an attempt to prove herself to John's children, Gloria set up a scheme to taint a Jabot product Ashley created, the face cream 'GloAgain', and then pretend to catch the faulty product before it is released, and in so doing, appear to save Jabot. However, unbeknownst to Gloria, Jack sends samples of the product out retailers before Gloria can pretend to save the day. The samples hurt many people, including John's granddaughter Abby, and are initially thought to result in the death of a woman named Emma Gibson (whom it is much later determined actually had another medical condition that caused her death). Emma's husband sues Jabot and Gloria convinces him to stipulate in the settlement that Jack can not have anything to do with the company again.
While in prison, John suffers a massive stroke that puts him into a coma, and he is placed on life support. When it is revealed that he will never reemerge from his coma, Jack and Ashley want to take John off of life support, while Gloria wishes to keep him alive. Gloria and John's children fight bitterly over this, before Gloria eventually relents and allows John to die peacfully. After John's death, Jack, still angry at Gloria, lies about the time of John's funeral, causing her to miss it, and later kicks her out of the Abbott Mansion, leaving her to move in with Michael and Lauren. It is revealed that Jack also tricked John (preying upon his temporary dementia) into writing a will that left Gloria with nothing. Katherine Chancellor
and Jill Abbott
give Gloria a job at Jabot. She romantically pursues district attorney William Bardwell who has recently inherited a fortune due to his uncle's death. Gloria eventually marries William, who then discovers the truth about Gloria and the face cream. He then suffers a stroke
, and is taken to hospital. After holding him against his will while she attempts to change his mind about reporting her activities surrounding the face cream, she decides to turn herself in for contaminating the 'GloAgain' face cream so that he will stop stressing himself and his condition will improve. Seeing that she truly loves him, William Bardwell stops Gloria from turning herself in, but eventually succumbs to his stroke and dies anyway. After William dies he inherits his uncle's money, fifty million dollars, and the money goes to Gloria. The truth about John's fake will is also revealed, and Gloria inherits half of the Abbott estate, per John's original will.
William's identical twin Jeffrey
arrives in Genoa City and schemes to get William's money. Jeffrey presents Gloria with a box of mementos that William sent him before he died. The box contains a jar of the contaminated face cream. Gloria then becomes convinced that Jeffrey knows of her crime. Gloria plays a game of cat-and-mouse with Jeffrey. Their manipulations of each other lead to two marriages and to the two of them falling in love.
The truth about John's will comes out and Gloria is awarded half of Abbott Manor. Since Gloria and Jeffrey move in and Jack and Sharon refuse to move out, they are time-sharing by area. Both couples are doing everything they can to make the other leave. Gloria redecorates in outlandish style, and Sharon & Jack with Jeff's help, hire an actor, Alistair Wallingford, to play John's ghost to scare Gloria into selling her share of the mansion and leaving. Gloria figures it out and threatens to file a lawsuit, but Jack, influenced by his conscience in the form of his dead father John, gives up and gives her the house. He and Sharon move out. Gloria, influenced by Jana and her beliefs in karma, decides to turn her life around and gives the mansion back to Jack. Jeffery and Gloria to live in the Abbott pool house.
Jeffrey and Gloria join forces with John's children to regain control of Jabot. With Kevin's help, Gloria manipulates Katherine into leaving her some Jabot shares in her will. Meanwhile, she and Jeffrey set up a dummy corporation to buy Jabot shares. After Kay dies and Gloria gains control of the shares she left her, she, Jeffrey, and the Abbott children take over Jabot.
Michael's father River Baldwin comes back into their lives. Jeff is jealous of him. River needs Gloria to testify in his favor in order to so he will not got to prison. Jeffrey blackmails her into not doing it. He says he will expose her for tainting the 'GloAgain' cream. After struggling with her conscience, Gloria does testify for River and is arrested tainting the cream.
Gloria is released from prison, when it is determined that her face cream tampering did not result in any deaths. She attempts to reconcile with Jeffrey, but ends their relationship when she sees him with Jill.
In late 2009, Jeffrey and Gloria reunite, first moving into the Genoa City Athletic Club, and eventually renting Phyllis Newman
's penthouse condo. They remain in the penthouse until summer 2010, when Phyllis abruptly evicts them, as she wants to reclaim the condo for Sharon Newman. Jeffrey and Gloria move back into the GCAC.
In August 2010, Gloria opens a nightclub called Gloworm (in the location of Neil Winters
' former Indigo club), and has Jeffrey be her date to the grand opening. The event is also featured on Abby Newman's reality show "The Naked Heiress". Abby even gives the club her "Naked Heiress" seal of approval, which delights Gloria.
Gloria also gets her real estate license & makes her first sale, selling a home to her ex-stepson Billy Abbott & his now-wife Victoria Newman.
In December 2010, Gloria warns her former daughter-in-law Jana Hawkes to stay away from Kevin, knowing that they have reconnected. Gloria is very angry at Jana for cheating on Kevin with his half-brother Ryder Callahan.
Beginning in late 2010 and continuing into 2011, Jeffrey begins using Gloworm as a front for an illegal gambling and money laundering operation, eventually involving Kevin in the scheme (under the guise of his being the club's bookkeeper); Kevin's girlfriend Chloe Mitchell
also becomes indirectly involved, but Gloria is not made aware of her nightclub's involvement in illegal activities. She presumes Jeffrey and Kevin's mobster associates to be legitimate patrons of Gloworm.
On Valentine's Day Gloria teams up with Katherine Chancellor
(Chloe's godmother) to bring an estranged Kevin and Chloe back together. The plan works as Kevin and Chloe have sex in Gloria's office at Gloworm.
Fictional character
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, a resident of Genoa City on the CBS
CBS
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daytime drama The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
. The role was originated by Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its spin-off, Knots Landing...
who played the role from April 6, 2004 to January 7, 2005, and is currently portrayed by Judith Chapman
Judith Chapman
Judith Chapman is an actress known to fans of American daytime television. She gave her screen debut at the age of 16 in the Spaghetti Western Sette donne per i MacGregor. She has appeared on half a dozen daytime dramas since the mid-1970s...
, who assumed the role on January 14, 2005. By 2011, Judith Chapman was dropped as a series regular to a recurring character. Most of the storylines regarding Gloria involve her marriage to John Abbott
John Abbott (The Young and the Restless)
John Abbott, Sr. is a fictional character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. He is the patriarch of the Abbotts, one of the core families that was introduced to the show in 1980. The character was originated by Brett Halsey from May 1980 to March 1981...
, Jeffrey Bardwell
Jeffrey Bardwell
Jeffrey Bardwell is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Ted Shackelford from August 8, 2007 to March 16, 2011. Kin Shriner took over the role from April 20 to September 16, 2011....
, and schemes involving her sons Michael Baldwin
Michael Baldwin
Michael Baldwin is a fictional character on the CBS television soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Christian LeBlanc originally from late December 1991 until June 1993 and then he returned on April 25, 1997. The character has also crossed over briefly to As the World Turns on April...
and Kevin Fisher
Kevin Fisher
Kevin Fisher is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Emmy Award-winning actor Greg Rikaart since July 11, 2003. Rikaart won a Daytime Emmy Award for his portrayal of Kevin in 2005....
. She has also developed a strong rivalry with Jack and Ashley Abbott
Ashley Abbott
Ashley Suzanne Abbott McCall is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, currently played by American actress Eileen Davidson, who had played the character for a total of more than 16 years prior to her return in September 2008...
. More recently, she and Jeffrey opened the city's favorite club, Gloworm.
Storylines
Gloria Fisher comes to town after her younger son, Kevin FisherKevin Fisher
Kevin Fisher is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Emmy Award-winning actor Greg Rikaart since July 11, 2003. Rikaart won a Daytime Emmy Award for his portrayal of Kevin in 2005....
, goes to her for help. She becomes romantically involved with John Abbott, Sr
John Abbott (The Young and the Restless)
John Abbott, Sr. is a fictional character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. He is the patriarch of the Abbotts, one of the core families that was introduced to the show in 1980. The character was originated by Brett Halsey from May 1980 to March 1981...
. They soon marry. She hides the identities of her sons Kevin and Michael Baldwin
Michael Baldwin
Michael Baldwin is a fictional character on the CBS television soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by Christian LeBlanc originally from late December 1991 until June 1993 and then he returned on April 25, 1997. The character has also crossed over briefly to As the World Turns on April...
because John does not like them, particularly Kevin who is an internet predator
Online predator
An online predator is an adult Internet user who exploits vulnerable children or teens, usually for sexual or other abusive purposes.Online victimization of minors can include child grooming, requests to engage in sexual activities or discussions by an adult, unwanted exposure to sexual material ,...
who attempted to murder John's granddaughter Colleen Carlton
Colleen Carlton
Colleen Cecile Carlton is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. She was last portrayed by Tammin Sursok, who joined the cast on July 30, 2007 and departed on October 5, 2009...
among other crimes. John eventually finds out and is angry. After Kevin saves John's life he comes to accept his wife's family. Gloria has to contend with John's two oldest children, who reside in the Abbott Mansion. His daughter Ashley does not like Gloria, viewing her as a schemer and scam artist, only after John's money, while his son Jack, realizing that Gloria makes his father happy, is more accepting.
Tom Fisher, Gloria's second husband and Kevin's father, comes to town, revealing that, unbeknownst to Gloria, their divorce was never finalized, and they are, in fact, still married (thus invalidating Gloria's marriage to John). Tom begins blackmailing Gloria by threatening to reveal to John that she and Tom are still married. She gives into the blackmail, which includes giving him money and occasionally helping him romantically pursue John's daughter Ashley Abbott
Ashley Abbott
Ashley Suzanne Abbott McCall is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless, currently played by American actress Eileen Davidson, who had played the character for a total of more than 16 years prior to her return in September 2008...
. John finds out about this and confronts Tom with a gun. He accidentally shoots and kills him. After a bout of memory loss of the event (during which Ashley falsely confesses to thd crime to protect her father), John remembers the events and confesses that it was, in fact, he who killed Tom. He is conficted, despite the extenuating circumstance, and is sent to prison. Before his incarceration, he leaves Gloria his Jabot proxy.
While Ashley has never cared for Gloria, after John's incarceration, his son Jack begins to also resent her, blaming her for his father's troubles and his imprisonment. In an attempt to prove herself to John's children, Gloria set up a scheme to taint a Jabot product Ashley created, the face cream 'GloAgain', and then pretend to catch the faulty product before it is released, and in so doing, appear to save Jabot. However, unbeknownst to Gloria, Jack sends samples of the product out retailers before Gloria can pretend to save the day. The samples hurt many people, including John's granddaughter Abby, and are initially thought to result in the death of a woman named Emma Gibson (whom it is much later determined actually had another medical condition that caused her death). Emma's husband sues Jabot and Gloria convinces him to stipulate in the settlement that Jack can not have anything to do with the company again.
While in prison, John suffers a massive stroke that puts him into a coma, and he is placed on life support. When it is revealed that he will never reemerge from his coma, Jack and Ashley want to take John off of life support, while Gloria wishes to keep him alive. Gloria and John's children fight bitterly over this, before Gloria eventually relents and allows John to die peacfully. After John's death, Jack, still angry at Gloria, lies about the time of John's funeral, causing her to miss it, and later kicks her out of the Abbott Mansion, leaving her to move in with Michael and Lauren. It is revealed that Jack also tricked John (preying upon his temporary dementia) into writing a will that left Gloria with nothing. Katherine Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor Murphy is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless...
and Jill Abbott
Jill Foster Abbott
Jill Abbott Fenmore is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. She is one of the series' original characters, and the only one remaining from its debut in March 1973...
give Gloria a job at Jabot. She romantically pursues district attorney William Bardwell who has recently inherited a fortune due to his uncle's death. Gloria eventually marries William, who then discovers the truth about Gloria and the face cream. He then suffers a stroke
Stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
, and is taken to hospital. After holding him against his will while she attempts to change his mind about reporting her activities surrounding the face cream, she decides to turn herself in for contaminating the 'GloAgain' face cream so that he will stop stressing himself and his condition will improve. Seeing that she truly loves him, William Bardwell stops Gloria from turning herself in, but eventually succumbs to his stroke and dies anyway. After William dies he inherits his uncle's money, fifty million dollars, and the money goes to Gloria. The truth about John's fake will is also revealed, and Gloria inherits half of the Abbott estate, per John's original will.
William's identical twin Jeffrey
Jeffrey Bardwell
Jeffrey Bardwell is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Ted Shackelford from August 8, 2007 to March 16, 2011. Kin Shriner took over the role from April 20 to September 16, 2011....
arrives in Genoa City and schemes to get William's money. Jeffrey presents Gloria with a box of mementos that William sent him before he died. The box contains a jar of the contaminated face cream. Gloria then becomes convinced that Jeffrey knows of her crime. Gloria plays a game of cat-and-mouse with Jeffrey. Their manipulations of each other lead to two marriages and to the two of them falling in love.
The truth about John's will comes out and Gloria is awarded half of Abbott Manor. Since Gloria and Jeffrey move in and Jack and Sharon refuse to move out, they are time-sharing by area. Both couples are doing everything they can to make the other leave. Gloria redecorates in outlandish style, and Sharon & Jack with Jeff's help, hire an actor, Alistair Wallingford, to play John's ghost to scare Gloria into selling her share of the mansion and leaving. Gloria figures it out and threatens to file a lawsuit, but Jack, influenced by his conscience in the form of his dead father John, gives up and gives her the house. He and Sharon move out. Gloria, influenced by Jana and her beliefs in karma, decides to turn her life around and gives the mansion back to Jack. Jeffery and Gloria to live in the Abbott pool house.
Jeffrey and Gloria join forces with John's children to regain control of Jabot. With Kevin's help, Gloria manipulates Katherine into leaving her some Jabot shares in her will. Meanwhile, she and Jeffrey set up a dummy corporation to buy Jabot shares. After Kay dies and Gloria gains control of the shares she left her, she, Jeffrey, and the Abbott children take over Jabot.
Michael's father River Baldwin comes back into their lives. Jeff is jealous of him. River needs Gloria to testify in his favor in order to so he will not got to prison. Jeffrey blackmails her into not doing it. He says he will expose her for tainting the 'GloAgain' cream. After struggling with her conscience, Gloria does testify for River and is arrested tainting the cream.
Gloria is released from prison, when it is determined that her face cream tampering did not result in any deaths. She attempts to reconcile with Jeffrey, but ends their relationship when she sees him with Jill.
In late 2009, Jeffrey and Gloria reunite, first moving into the Genoa City Athletic Club, and eventually renting Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman
Phyllis Newman is an American actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.-Early life:...
's penthouse condo. They remain in the penthouse until summer 2010, when Phyllis abruptly evicts them, as she wants to reclaim the condo for Sharon Newman. Jeffrey and Gloria move back into the GCAC.
In August 2010, Gloria opens a nightclub called Gloworm (in the location of Neil Winters
Neil Winters
Neil Winters is a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, portrayed by actor Kristoff St. John since his first appearance in January 1991...
' former Indigo club), and has Jeffrey be her date to the grand opening. The event is also featured on Abby Newman's reality show "The Naked Heiress". Abby even gives the club her "Naked Heiress" seal of approval, which delights Gloria.
Gloria also gets her real estate license & makes her first sale, selling a home to her ex-stepson Billy Abbott & his now-wife Victoria Newman.
In December 2010, Gloria warns her former daughter-in-law Jana Hawkes to stay away from Kevin, knowing that they have reconnected. Gloria is very angry at Jana for cheating on Kevin with his half-brother Ryder Callahan.
Beginning in late 2010 and continuing into 2011, Jeffrey begins using Gloworm as a front for an illegal gambling and money laundering operation, eventually involving Kevin in the scheme (under the guise of his being the club's bookkeeper); Kevin's girlfriend Chloe Mitchell
Chloe Mitchell
Chloe Mitchell is a fictional character on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She was first portrayed by a set of twins, Darla and Sandra Greer, from 1990 to 1991, and briefly by Danielle Ryah in 1994...
also becomes indirectly involved, but Gloria is not made aware of her nightclub's involvement in illegal activities. She presumes Jeffrey and Kevin's mobster associates to be legitimate patrons of Gloworm.
On Valentine's Day Gloria teams up with Katherine Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor Murphy is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless...
(Chloe's godmother) to bring an estranged Kevin and Chloe back together. The plan works as Kevin and Chloe have sex in Gloria's office at Gloworm.