Cane Ashby

Infobox soap character
name = Cane Ashby
series = The Young and the Restless
portrayer = Daniel Goddard
first = Episode 8556
January 12 2007
last =
cause =
creator = Lynn Marie Latham



caption1 = Daniel Goddard as Cane Ashby (2007)
nickname = Hurricane
alias = Ethan Ashby
(name given at adoption)
Phillip Chancellor III
(birth name)
gender = Male
born = Birth date and age|1975|12|25
death =
age =
occupation = CEO of Jabot Cosmetics(owned by Chancellor Industries Director of Acquisitions at Chancellor Industries Construction Company Clear Springs Construction Manager for Chancellor Industries
Former Bartender at Indigo
title = heir to the Chancellor Fortune
residence = 1101 Lavetta Terrace
Genoa City, WI 53128
parents = Phillip Chancellor II
(father; deceased)
Jill Foster Abbott
(mother)
Violet Montgomery (adoptive mother; deceased)
siblings = William "Billy" Abbott
(half-brother)
spouse = Amber Moore
(invalid, 2007)
Chloe Mitchell
(current)
romances = Lily Winters
(formerly engaged)
Heather Stevens
(flirtation)
children = Unnamed child
(sex unknown, with Lily, deceased)

grandchildren =
grandparents = Phillip Chancellor
(grandfather; deceased)
Arthur Hendricks
(grandfather)
Katherine Chancellor
(grandmother)
aunts/uncles = Brock Reynolds
(uncle)
Langley Ashby (uncle; via adoption)
cousins = Mackenzie Browning
(cousin)
relatives = Esther Valentine (mother-in-law)
color = #C3B091
color text =

Ethan "Cane" Ashby (né Phillip Chancellor III) is a fictional character in the American soap opera "The Young and the Restless", portrayed by Australian actor Daniel Goddard since January 12, 2007. The character was revealed as the real Phillip Chancellor III as part of retcon storyline.

Character

Cane (short for "Hurricane"; this is how the character has almost always been addressed) was introduced as a bartender at "Indigo", Neil Winters' nightclub. Shortly after his introduction he became involved with Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz), who first used him to make Adrian Korbel (Eyal Podell) jealous; she later found out that Cane was trying to find his birth mother. He had been adopted by a woman named Violet Montgomery, who had died shortly after, and then raised by Violet's brother, Langley Ashby who lives in Canberra. At the same time, Amber was also trying to track down Jill Abbott's (Jess Walton) son, Phillip Chancellor III, who had actually been switched with another child by Katherine Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) shortly after his birth; she was the first to come across the link between the two families--Violet Montgomery--and realized that Cane might be Jill's son. Since Katherine and Jill were acting so strange around him, before he knew they were his mother and grandmother, he coined them the "looney toons." It was revealed in February 2007 that Amber's suspicions were correct; Cane "is" Jill's son. Jill and Cane shared a tearful reunion.

Intent on using Cane for the money he did not know he had, Amber tricked him into marriage by arranging a faux wedding in Las Vegas in March 2007. (A friend of Amber's, Alison Stewart (Marnie Schulenberg), impersonated Cane during the ceremony).

Cane and Amber got used to being married, and eventually moved onto the Chancellor estate. Kay also offered an executive position to Cane in the construction division of Chancellor Industries, which he accepted.

Later, Cane began to be suspicious concerning his marriage to Amber. He realised that his signature on the wedding certificate did not look like his own, though Amber claimed it was because of how drunk he was. After contacting Amber's former mother-in-law Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) and asking questions about her history with Amber, he eventually realised the truth, that the marriage was invalid, and now wants nothing to do with Amber and claimed that she only ever wanted him for the Chancellor money. Before asking her to sign the papers invalidating their marriage, Cane slept with Amber and then rejected her, hoping to make her feel his pain. Amber, meanwhile, appears to have actually fallen in love with Cane during the marriage, and is devastated at his rejection.

In September 2007, Cane shared a kiss with the recently-divorced Lily Winters (Christel Khalil), and also appear began a flirtation with A.D.A. Heather Stevens (Vail Bloom). On the December 4th episode, Cane and Heather mutually decided to be just friends, citing no chemistry as the reason. Cane and Lily started dating, despite Neil's (Lily's father) disapproval. Cane was planning to move into a condo when he finds out that Lily was planning to move out as well. Cane wanted to ask Lily to move in with him but he's not sure about Neil's approval. During this time, Lily became pregnant with Cane's child, but unfortunately miscarried early on. Cane and Lily continue to see each other, and they each have professed their love for one another on several occasions. They are in a committed relationship and started living together in the house Cane bought for them. In August 2008 Cane proposed to Lily by giving her a fortune cookie with a ring inside, Lily accepted. Cane spent an evening drinking with an old friend from Australia, and ended up getting drunk and passing out in Chloe's car. Chloe then took advantage of the situation and took off Cane's clothing and her own in order to make him believe they had sex together. Even though Chloe was pregnant before pulling her scheme, a recent DNA test showed that Cane could not be excluded as the father of Chloe Mitchell's child, much to her enjoyment and Cane and Lily's horror. Upon this revelation Lily moved out of the house.

To this date, Cane has never had any contact with his brother Billy Abbott, since discovering his biological family. His grandmother at one point tried to get him to meet his brother when they initial discovered Cane (fact date July 2007).

In early october Cane finally met his half-brother Billy who has returned to Genoa City and will be working at Jabot, while keeping contact with house of kim via satelite.

Chloe/Cane/Lily

When Chloe turns up pregnant and the DNA test can't prove that Cane is not excluded as the father, Lily urges Cane to marry Chloe to be there for "his" child. It was made clear to the viewers that Cane is not the father, as Chloe was pregnant prior to the faked one night stand between her and Cane. Due to Cane being in the matching paternity group, there is an unknown, (at least by the characters), possibility that the baby is his brother Billy Abbott's who is set to return to Genoa City. In early September it was revealed that Chloe has been lying about her identity all along. Her real name is Kate Valentine, and she is in fact the daughter of Katherine Chancellor's longtime maid Esther Valentine. This enrages Cane who realizes Chloe has been lying to him since the start of the whole fiasco. Jill urges him to consider getting a good lawyer with the ultimate goal of getting an annulment.

ources

* [http://soapcentral.com/yr/whoswho/cane.php Ethan "Cane" Ashby profile] at [http://soapcentral.com soapcentral.com]
* [http://www.soaps.com/youngandrestless/actor/482/Daniel_Goddard Daniel's role as Cane from soaps.com]

External links

* [http://www.ashbysangels.com/ Ashby's Angels ... All Daniel, All Cane, All the Time]