Billy Kennedy is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Jesse Spencer.

[1] The family, which consisted of five members – a mother, father, two sons and a daughter – moved into Number 28 Ramsay Street.

[1] The storyliners felt that they needed to take the show back to its roots, as it seemed that all the houses on the street were populated with misfits and distant relatives.

"[5] The BBC cut the scenes ahead of broadcast in the UK, fearing they were "too raunchy" for the early evening timeslot.

One of Caitlin's top priorities, upon moving to Erinsborough, was to find a boyfriend and she set her sights on Billy, her training partner at the pool.

[8] Satchwell told Steven Murphy from Inside Soap that neither Anne nor Caitlin were prepared to back down over Billy.

[6] Satchwell thought that it would have made everyone's lives easier if Billy and Anne had just sat down and talked about their relationship problems in the first place.

[11] In 2005, Spencer reprised his role and became one of many former members who made a return to Neighbours to appear in the show's 20th anniversary episode "Friends for Twenty Years".

Billy soon makes friends with Toadfish Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney) and Hannah Martin (Rebecca Ritters) and meets his first girlfriend, Melissa Drenth.

Billy breaks up with Melissa when she reveals her homophobia towards his teacher, Andrew Watson (Christopher Uhlmann) who was trying to help him after he was diagnosed with dyslexia.

When Amy Greenwood (Jacinta Stapleton) arrives and the Wilkinson twins, Lance (Andrew Bibby) and Anne, a new group of friends is born.

When Caitlin Atkins (Emily Milburn) arrives she wastes no time in admitting her feelings for Billy and they even share a kiss.

Billy misses Anne while she is away and enters a kissing contest with Amy to win the prize money and fund a trip to see her.

Five years later, Billy appears in Annalise Hartman's (Kimberly Davies) documentary about Ramsay Street, and says hello to his parents whilst he and Anne are on holiday.

Seventeen years later, Billy sends a video congratulating Toadie on his wedding to Melanie Pearson (Lucinda Cowden).

[19] A writer for the BBC's Neighbours website stated that Billy's most notable moment was "Setting up a pirate radio station.

"[24] In November 1999, an All About Soap critic praised Spencer and Satchwell's performance stating that "if Jason and Kylie were the soapworld's sweethearts in the 1980s, then their crown has undoubtedly been passed onto Jesse and Brooke, alias teenage lovers Billy Kennedy and Anne Wilkinson.

"[25] In 2010, to celebrate Neighbours' 25th anniversary, a writer for Sky profiled 25 characters of which they believed were the most memorable in the series history.

This somewhat inevitably helped him to, ahem, 'fill out', and lead to lots of him, Ben's sister Caitlin and spontaneous lodger Joel wandering around the Kennedy house with very few clothes on.