Xander Avant and Zoe Buckingham

Xander Avant and Zoe Buckingham are fictional characters and a couple from CBS's daytime soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. Xander is the nephew of Julius Avant and the cousin of Maya Avant, Nicole Avant, and Sasha Thompson. Zoe is the daughter of Reese Buckingham.

Xander is portrayed by Adain Bradley and Zoe is portrayed by Kiara Barnes.

2018-2019
Zoe Buckingham is an artist from London who shared a romantic past with Alexander "Xander" Avant. Zoe exhibited obsessive behavior, causing Xander to leave her and their cat, Harry; Zoe packed up Harry and tracked Xander to Los Angeles, where he had taken on an internship at Forrester Creations, a design house at which Xander's cousin, Maya Avant, was a lead model. Zoe was commissioned to paint a mural at the house of Wyatt Spencer; while there, Zoe used the laptop of Wyatt's girlfriend, Sally Spectra, to post threats on a Forrester Creations web site, knowing it would be traced back to Sally. Zoe then snuck into Forrester and spied on Xander kissing his new girlfriend, Emma Barber.

Zoe got caught by Xander and admitted she was only trying to scare Emma. Instead of returning to England per Xander's orders, Zoe stepped in for an injured model during a showing for Forrester's Hope for the Future line and made such a splash she was hired on permanently. Wanting Xander back, Zoe teased Xander and taunted Emma, whom Zoe considered a child. When Harry died, Zoe turned to Xander for comfort and was surprised when he kissed her. Zoe grudgingly agreed to coexist with Emma at Forrester when Xander asked the girls to get along, but got a chance to get closer to Xander when they both were selected to model for Steffy Forrester's sexy Intimates line; Zoe and Xander kissed several times. Zoe continued to let her ex know she was available, and, when Emma ended things with Xander, Zoe got a chance to try again with him, agreeing to take things slow.

Zoe's troubles doubled after Steffy's brother, Thomas Forrester, got wind of the baby switch secret and threatened Zoe, Flo, and Xander into keeping quiet. When Emma walked in on her and Xander's vehement disagreement about the situation, Zoe called Thomas to prevent Emma from telling Hope the truth; Zoe couldn't believe it when Emma ended up dead in a car crash hours later. Zoe refused to believe Xander and Flo's claim that Thomas had something to do with Emma's death and repeatedly rationalized her secret-keeping to Xander, even after Xander had gotten into Thomas' GPS and learned Thomas had stopped on the road at Emma's crash site. Zoe ended up alone when Xander dumped her and went back to England.