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Kyle Jenkins Abbott (born Christian Victor Newman) is the son of Jack Abbott and the late Diane Jenkins, born onscreen on January 8, 2001. Widely recognized with actor Garrett Ryan, Kyle was recast as a SORAS in 2012 with Blake Hood.

Casting
The character of Kylie was originally played by two sets of twins, Connor and Garret Sullivan and Marissa and Madison Poer from 2001 – 2002, and twins Cooper and Oliver Guynes in 2002. Seth Stern portrayed the role in 2004. The role is currently portrayed by Garrett Ryan from February 2010 to present, on a recurring basis. In early 2012, a casting call went out for the role of "Max", rumored to be a returning SORASed Kyle, Scotty or Noah. In March 2012, it was confirmed that actor Blake Hood would begin portraying the role of a SORASed Kyle in April. He debuted in the role on April 27, 2012 on a contract status.

Storyline
Kyle was originally thought to be the child of Victor Newman, but once the truth came out that he is Jack's son, a custody battle over him ensued. Jack was granted visitation, but immediately questioned Diane's motives as she planned on winning Jack back from his marriage to Phyllis Summers. Diane set up a plan to accuse Phyllis of arson and attempted murder by setting the Abbott pool house ablaze. Phyllis convinced Jack that Diane set her up so that she could have him, and they resolved to expose Diane, to such lengths that Jack took Diane to bed and seduced her into a confession. Phyllis was acquitted, then found the note that Diane had written to pay a bum to call Phyllis away from the wedding. Jack and Phyllis used this as blackmail to get Diane to turn over custody of Kyle. Diane then used her Newman millions to help bail out a financially strapped Jabot Cosmetics with "no strings attached" and set up offices at Jabot. Due to the friction caused by Jack working for Jabot and Phyllis working for Newman, Jack eventually gave Kyle back to Diane. After a failed flirtation with Damon Porter, Diane left town with Kyle and moved to Chicago.

In February 2010, as an arranged surprise for Jack from his new wife, Emily Peterson, Kyle, along with Diane, made a brief return to Genoa City to visit with Jack while Jack and Kyle became acquainted. In October 2010, Diane returned to town (now portrayed by Maura West) with Kyle, however Kyle wasn't seen until a few days later after Diane returned. Kyle resided in Genoa City, while both of his parents were being investigated by the SEC for plotting against Victor Newman and making money off his stocks after making the world believe that he died. His mother, Diane, sent him to boarding school in Switzerland without informing Jack because she was planning on faking her own murder and then joining her son. She also pleaded with Victor to sign the custody papers for Kyle if anything were to ever happen to her. It is unknown whether Diane was just following Adam Newman's orders in her faked murder plot, or if she really did want Victor to have custody of Kyle over Jack. Then, Jack found out that Diane sent Kyle away the night that she was actually murdered. After Diane's death, Jack tracked Kyle down under his alias, Timothy Bilton, and went to Switzerland to bring his son home. Jack then had to tell Kyle that his mother was killed. While his father was under investigation, Kyle stole Jack's Harvard class ring that the police were looking for as evidence. He reasoned that he already had his mother taken away from him, and he wanted to keep his dad. Later, Victor showed Jack the custody papers that Diane made him sign, and Jack was infuriated at Victor and his deceased ex-wife for trying to take his son away from him. Jack vowed to fight to keep Kyle with his biological family. Currently, Kyle is staying with Jack and attending school in Genoa City. Kyle and Jack revealed to everyone that Kyle would be moving to New York to attend a hockey boarding school. He departed in the new year.

Kyle returned to town in April 2012, just in time for his new baby cousin, John's christening. Upon seeing Nikki and Jack together, he expresses his anger and distaste for them being together, claiming that they were bashing his mother's memory by being together.