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NBC News
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Bill Belichick: Jordon Hudson 'doesn't have anything to do with UNC football'
North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick shot down the notion that his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson has impacted his ability to properly lead the football program. 'That's really off to the side,' he told ESPN on Tuesday from the ACC Spring Meetings. 'It's a personal relationship and she doesn't have anything to do with UNC football.' Belichick, 73, is considered one of the greatest coaches in football history. He led the New England Patriots from 2000-2023, helping the team claim six Super Bowl victories. After mutually agreeing to part ways with the franchise in January 2024, he was named head coach of the Tar Heels the following December. Belichick and Hudson's relationship was first made public that same month, when they walked the red carpet together at the American Museum of Natural History Gala. Questions immediately rose due to the 49-year age gap. They got much louder in late April when Belichick appeared on 'CBS Mornings' ahead of the release of his memoir, 'The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football.' When correspondent Tony Dokoupil asked how the couple met, Hudson, sitting in the background, said, 'We're not talking about this.' Belichick has since released a statement saying they had nothing to hide about how they met. 'Some of the clips make it appear as though we were avoiding the question of how we met, but we have been open about the fact that Jordon and I met on a flight to Palm Beach in 2021,' he said. NBC Sports reported last month that Hudson is 'very involved' in Belichick's role with UNC. 'From his coaching job at North Carolina to the program's negotiations with NFL Films about a Hard Knocks-style documentary/infomercial, she is taking a very active role,' Mike Florio reported. 'And exerting a very high degree of influence.' Belichick, however, refuted that on Tuesday. Asked by ESPN whether he has spoken with his team about 'what's going on off the field,' he said he has. 'We want to make the players the best they can be and provide them the best opportunity on and off the field,' he said. 'That's what we're about at UNC and we're going to do the best for every single player that we have.'
New York Post
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Jordon Hudson's awkward Bill Belichick interview meddling was even worse than CBS showed
CBS spared Jordon Hudson in the final edit of Bill Belichick's now-viral interview Sunday, according to Pro Football Talk. The 24-year-old girlfriend of the North Carolina football coach, 73, interjected during his interview with 'CBS Sunday Morning' when he was asked about how they met. It reportedly wasn't the only time she interrupted the Q&A. 'While we don't know the total number of interruptions, it's our understanding that CBS decided to include that one specific instance because it wasn't a one-time thing,' PFT reported. 'Jordon was a constant presence during our interview,' CBS's Tony Dokoupil said. When Dokoupil pressed Belichick about how the couple met, Hudson said, 'We're not talking about this.' 'No,' Dokoupil replied as he looked over at Hudson, who responded, 'No.' 3 Jordon Hudson reportedly interrupted Bill Belichick's interview with CBS, which aired on April 27, 2025, multiple times YouTube/CBS Hudson and Belichick weren't comfortable commenting on it. 'I've never been too worried about what everybody else thinks,' Belichick said when asked how he deals with the attention on his personal life. 'I just try to do what I feel like is what's best for me and what's right.' 3 Jordon Hudson reportedly interrupted Bill Belichick's interview with CBS, which aired on April 27, 2025, multiple times YouTube/CBS Hudson and Belichick met on a flight from Boston to Florida in 2021, according to TMZ. In February, Hudson shared in an Instagram post that they met on Feb. 11, 2021, and called it their 'meetiversary.' The former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University included an image of a book that Belichick signed for her. 3 Jordon Hudson's relationship with Bill Belichick was made public in 2024. Getty Images Hudson has shared glimpses of the couple's relationship on social media after it became public last June. At the time, the pair was seen on Belichick's yacht in Nantucket. Hudson has made her presence known at UNC, where she recently attended a spring practice as Belichick prepares for his first season coaching at the college level. She was also involved in the program's negotiations with NFL Films about a Hard Knocks-style documentary/infomercial, according to PFT.
NBC Sports
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Bill Belichick's girlfriend shuts down a question posed during CBS interview
Bill Belichick's first book comes out soon. He's doing a book tour. Based on the most recent broadcast interview, it seems to be going roughly as well as the tour for Kramer's coffee-table book about coffee tables. In a mostly fluff-filed sit-down with Tony Dokoupil of CBS Mornings, the 73-year-old Belichick was asked how he met his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson. Before he could begin to answer, Hudson intervened. Even though she wasn't part of the interview. She said, off camera from the producer's table, 'We're not talking about this.' It wasn't, we're told, the only time she interjected. While we don't know the total number of interruptions, it's our understanding that CBS decided to include that one specific instance because it wasn't a one-time thing. Some outlets would have ended the interview and refused to run it. Belichick and his publisher want free publicity for his book. It wasn't a probing 60 Minutes profile, delving into skeletons tucked deep in his closet (next to whatever it is he was wearing for the interview). This kind of feature is a quid pro quo, with far more quid for the subject than quo for the network. Other outlets would have left her comment on the cutting-room floor. CBS deserves credit for leaving it in. All in all, it's another tangible example of what has been rampant over the past several months. She's very involved — in everything. From his coaching job at North Carolina to the program's negotiations with NFL Films about a Hard Knocks-style documentary/infomercial, she is taking a very active role. And exerting a very high degree of influence. If that's what Belichick what's to do, so be it. It's still a free country. (We think.) But it's unprecedented, for any high-level football coach, to have a family member/significant other who isn't employed by the program to be so intimately connected to it. And it's precisely the kind of thing that Belichick, in past years, would have mercilessly mocked.
