Jordon Hudson, 24, feels no need to justify why her bond with former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, 73, transcends their 49-year age gap, but she has upped her defensive game.

Jordon Hudson doesn't care how many yards, er, years separate her and boyfriend Bill Belichick.

Sure, they caught some ribald ribbing during The Roast of Tom Brady last May, Rob Gronkowski joking about Belichick scouting his as-yet unnamed girlfriend at the local high school, and Tom Brady himself referring to "that poor girl" whose house the former New England Patriots coach was "slinking out of" at 6 a.m.

But Hudson—who was at the event though she didn't pose for pictures with Belichick—powered through all the offensive lines.

"Happy 6 Month Roast-iversary," she posted on Instagram Nov. 15. "Hopefully y’all’s burn wounds healed over... I know Bill & I are still applying bacitracin daily."

The unfazed 24-year-old entrepreneur and Belichick, 73, went on to make their red carpet debut the following month at the American Museum of Natural History Gala in New York.

"I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks," Belichick, who shares three grown kids with ex-wife Debby Clarke, told CBS Sunday Morning in an interview that aired April 27. "Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right."

Yet when Belichick was named the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina in December and Hudson subsequently declared herself "overtly committed" to the Tar Heels' success, that didn't necessarily mean she would be joining him on the field.

But an April 13 TikTok showing Hudson adjusting Belichick's microphone on the sidelines during a UNC practice went viral, with a lot of the Internet openly wondering what, exactly, she was doing down there.

As it turned out, she was doing her job, NBC Sports reporting that she had scored a post with the documentary crew following Belichick as the six-time Super Bowl winner (plus twice as the New York Giants' defensive coordinator) embarks on his first season as a college football coach. (Originally the project was headed for NFL Films' off-season Hard Knocks, but now its landing spot is TBD.)

Her on-field appearance came about a month after a reporter from The Assembly obtained a Dec. 16 email in which Belichick requested that an athletic department official copy Hudson on future emails regarding social media and web content, "so she can also keep up with our postings."

So Belichick has already made it clear that Hudson is part of his team. And naturally she's been sporting lots of Carolina blue and white, the birthday girl showing off a No. 24 UNC basketball jersey she was gifted, along with a stunning bouquet of roses, on April 4.

Nor was she shy about drawing attention to Belichick's latest trip around the sun, captioning an April 8 photo of them petting sheep, "As Aries Children, Bill and I are both Rams by birthright. Coincidence? I think not…#mytwinflame."

She once again invoked Megan Fox's pet name for then-partner Machine Gun Kelly on Belichick's birthday April 16, sharing photos from their celebration.

So perhaps she felt as if she'd offered up enough glimpes of their life behind the scenes by the time Belichick sat down with Tony Dokoupil for CBS News.

When the journalist asked Belichick how he met Hudson, she chimed in from where she was sitting off to the side, "Not talking about this."

Hudson later shared some of the online comments defending her choice to block that line of questioning, including an X (formerly Twitter) post reading, “Nothing awkward about it. Imagine a private person wanting to keep their private life private. Shocking.”

Added another supporter, “I see a woman who cares about her man and doesn’t want him to be screwed around by the media.”

Hudson has taken the occasional timeout to address some of the more unsportsmanlike commentary regarding her 49-year age gap with the grandfather of six.

"There is no objective criteria for what constitutes someone’s worthiness of love," she wrote on Valentine's Day, captioning a photo of her and Belichick at the 14th Annual NFL Honors Feb. 6. "We do not need to justify 'why' we love a particular person. The ways in which we develop our biological preferences are deeply personal in which we owe no justification nor explanation."

Hudson, who has a degree in philosophy from Bridgewater State University, continued, "Love does not discriminate against sex, skin-color, religion, age, or ability...People and relationships, like everything else, are impermanent; even though love is eternal. Love is not to be judged. It is never okay to harass or abuse a person based upon who they love."

That of course hasn't prevented people from trying.

On March 14, Hudson posted a screenshot to her Instagram Story showing her response to this critique: "But you do realize your relationship is insane right...Let me help you."

Hudson fired back, "But you do realize direct messaging a stranger on Instagram with the intent of harassing them regarding their own personal relationship is insane, right?"

She also, incidentally, threw a flag on the troll's grammar, drawing in punctuation to highlight the original message's shortcomings.

But in lieu of always going for the extra point, Hudson has largely been content to let her love story play out like any other.

She met Belichick on a flight in 2021, when he was heading into his 22nd season as head coach of the Patriots and she was a national championship-winning cheerleader at Bridgewater State in Massachusetts. (She also, per her LinkedIn page, obtained her cosmetology licensure from New England Hair Academy in 2019, after enrolling in a 1,000-hour course while she was still a senior in high school.)

As Hudson shared on their fourth "meetiversary" on Feb. 11, she took the opportunity to have the second-winningest head coach in NFL history sign her copy of Warren Goldfarb's Deductive Logic.

"Thanks for giving me a course on logic!" he signed the inside cover. "Safe travels!"

Hudson captioned her celebratory post, "Cheers to the fact that you still let me give you lengthy philosophical lectures four years later. #LoveIsNotLogical #EvenThoughItKindOfIs #Ironic."

Let it be known, they did not bond over love of the game, Hudson admitting in a post showing off the hand-embellished jacket paying tribute to Belichick's storied career that she wore to the 2025 Super Bowl, "And yes, it is ironic that I went from never having watched a professional American football game, ever, to meticulously creating an honor piece for this guy. Funny how much things change in time, don’t ya think?"

That they do. When Hudson met him four-plus years ago, Belichick was still involved with his longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday, his partner of 16 years and president of the Bill Belichick Foundation before their reported split in 2023.

He was previously married to college sweetheart Clarke from 1977 until 2006, and they share daughter Amanda Belichick and sons Steve Belichick and Brian Belichick. While Amanda is the women's lacrosse coach at Holy Cross, Steve and Brian are once again working with their dad as UNC's new defensive coordinator and safeties coach, respectively.

Yet before the Belichicks start their inaugural campaign to make the College Football Playoff, Hudson has another, more imminent championship on her mind: She has announced that she'll be repping her hometown of Hancock—and her pet cause, protecting the livelihoods of local fishermen like her father—in the Miss Maine USA pageant taking place May 10 and 11.

Source:
courtesy of E!ONLINE

by Natalie Finn

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