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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—who's celebrating his 73rd birthday April 16—went on to make their red carpet debut the following month at the American Museum of Natural History Gala in New York. And when Belichick was named the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina, Hudson also declared herself "overtly committed" to the Tar Heels' success.
Which would have been as good a reason as any to expect to see her on the sidelines. 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." Not that Hudson doesn't take 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 Debby Clarke from 1977 until 2006, and they share three grown children, Amanda Belichick , 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.
And if she gets that first down, her next play would be the Miss USA pageant in January 2026. But Hudson will be getting her flowers in any case, Belichick apparently a big roses guy. "Behind his stern façade.
..," Hudson captioned a Feb.
1 pic of blooms from her boyfriend, cheekily referencing the perpetual glower he's known for wearing on the sidelines during games. A look that fans haven't seen quite as much of since he teamed up with Hudson. See what more smiling celebrity couples have said about their age gaps: Sarah Paulson & Holland Taylor The practice of ignoring what people say about their 32-year age gap is nothing new for the actresses.
"If someone wants to spend any time thinking I'm strange for loving the most spectacular person on the planet, then that's their problem," Sarah told Modern Luxury in 2018 while discussing her relationship with Holland. "I'm doing just fine." Heidi Klum & Tom Kaulitz As for the former Project Runway host, she simply says auf wiedersehen to any negative comments about her 16-year age gap with the Tokio Hotel guitarist.
"My boyfriend is many years younger than me, and lots of people are questioning that and asking about it," she shared with InStyle in 2018. "That's really the only time when age seems to be shoved in my face and I have to give an answer for it. I don't really think about it that much otherwise.
" And Heidi—who married Tom the following year—made it clear she's going to continue living life on her terms. "You have to just live a happy life without worrying too much about what people think," the supermodel continued, "because worrying is only going to give you more wrinkles." Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas Meanwhile, the Quantico star has called out a double standard.
While she noted people have a lot to say about her being 10 years old than the Jonas Brother singer, she suggested this wouldn't be the case if it were the other way around. " People gave us a lot of s--t about that and still do," Priyanka told InStyle . "I find it really amazing when you flip it and the guy is older, no one cares and actually people like it.
" Sam Taylor-Johnson & Aaron Taylor-Johnson And if you'd ask the Fifty Shades of Grey director, she'd say her 23-year age difference with the Kraven the Hunter actor just doesn't come up in their day-to-day. “No, it never does," she said in a 2024 interview with The Guardian . "I mean, it’s coming up now because you’re asking.
And it comes up on the outside perspective of people who don’t know us, because I guess people will always...
We’re a bit of an anomaly, but it’s that thing: After 14 years you just think, surely by now it doesn’t really matter?” Sam even pointed out her relationship with Aaron has lasted longer than her marriage to her ex-husband Jay Jopling , who is about four years older than she is. "So, if you think of it in that way," she continued, "then the age gap doesn’t really make any difference.” Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones Though the couple share a birthday (Sept.
25), they aren't on the same page...
of the calendar. "My husband is 25 years older than me; that’s not a secret," the Chicago star told WSJ. Magazine in 2021.
"With any relationship, it wouldn’t be normal if there weren’t any ups and downs. The constant is love and respect." Dennis Quaid & Laura Savoie The Parent Trap alum may argue that the only ones who should be focused on his relationship with the Bonniedale Films cofounder is them.
T-H-E-M, them. Get the picture? Still, Dennis indicated he and Laura are unfazed by any attention around her being 39 years younger. "We just don't even notice it," he told Today in 2021 about their age difference.
"We've never related to someone in my life better than we do. We have such a great relationship. And love finds a way, wherever it is.
And you never know, when love is coming, who that's going to be. And you have no control over it. And we just couldn't be happier.
" Hilaria Baldwin & Alec Baldwin The yoga instructor has admitted she used to judge couples with big age gaps before her relationship with the actor, who is 26 years her senior. "Alec and I are on all the lists of 'Celebrities with the Biggest Age Differences' and stuff like that," she explained on her podcast Witches Anonymous in 2022. "And I would look at it and be like, 'This older man wants some young bimbo with no opinions whatsoever.
And then that younger woman is obviously a gold digger, and she obviously doesn't even care and is just like OK, whatever, I hope you die and I'm gonna take all your money.'" However, she's since had a change of heart. "Now that I'm in that relationship and people will say those things about me regularly, I'm like, 'Oh my God, why was this trained into my head? Why was I so judgmental about other people who are literally just finding love?'" she added.
"And maybe their love looks different from you, and from your love, or from what I thought love would be, but it doesn't make it not valid." Felicity Blunt & Stanley Tucci Gird your loins because The Devil Wears Prada actor previously spoke about how he almost ended his relationship with the literary agent in the early days of their romance. "I'm 21 years older than she is and I didn't want to feel old for the rest of my life!" Stanley told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 2023.
"But I knew that this was an incredibly special person.” Oli Green & Sienna Miller The Alfie actress and the Lift actor know not everyone understands their relationship. “I would imagine it would be complicated for anyone to get their head around," Oli put it to Vogue while referencing their 15-year age gap, "but there’s been nothing but love and joy.
” And frankly, Sienna suggested nobody else needs to understand it. “I don’t think you can legislate on matters of the heart," she added. "I certainly have never been able to.
" Jeff Goldblum & Emilie Livingston The Jurassic Park star recalled a lighthearted moment with his Olympian wife, who is 30 years his junior. "I said, 'Which Beatle would I be if I was one of the Beatles?'" he remembered on The Hoda Show . "She said, 'Rex Harrison.
' I said, 'Wait a minute, I know we saw that My Fair Lady yesterday. I think you're thinking of that.'" However, Jeff noted it didn't take Emilie long to realize she meant George Harrison .
"So there's that kind of thing," he noted of the couple's age gap. But other than their differing cultural touchpoints, he continued, life together is "so far so good." Rosie Huntington-Whiteley & Jason Statham The model also doesn't feel the need to deliver a fast and furious response to any critics of her 20-year age gap with the actor.
"His knowledge and strength are really inspiring and attractive, and that can come with a man who's had a bit of time," she told Glamour in 2013. "We have a connection that has nothing to do with age. Work comes and goes, but if you have someone at home who thinks you're the greatest person in the world, that keeps you going.
" David Foster & Katharine McPhee As for how the American Idol alum feels about any judgment towards her nearly 35-year age gap with the composer? Probably so over it. "I totally get the judgment initially, but things are never as they appear," Katharine said on Dr. Berlin's Informed Pregnancy Podcast in 2023.
"And I'm in love with our love story, and that's all that matters is that I'm in love with the love story." Kristin Cavallari & Mark Estes One thing that’s not unwritten? The way Kristin felt about her 13-year age gap with ex-boyfriend Mark Estes . “Me dating a 24-year-old is not something that I was searching out,” The Hills alum said on a March 2024 episode of her podcast Let’s Be Honest .
“It’s not something that I ever thought would ever happen. If you guys listen to the podcast, you know I thought 30-year-olds were too young for me.” And while Kristin said she understands how “it looks to the outside world,” she insisted Mark is “not a typical 24-year-old” and that there’s more to a person than their birth year.
“I really think age is just a number,” she continued. “It’s what you’ve been through in your life, how you were raised. There are just so many factors that go into maturity other than age.
” But months later, Kristin shared she broke up with Mark. “I just know long-term he needs to experience life,” she said on an October episode of her podcast. “He’s young.
He is. I started to feel the age a bit just with life experience. I look back when I was 24 and how much life has happened for me in between then.
Those are crucial years. Those are formative years. This is when you find yourself and he needs to be able to do that.
” Still, she called their romance "the best relationship" of her life and expressed hope that Mark will realize their split was for the best. "I know that one day he will look back and he will understand it," she added, "and I actually think one day he will thank me." Amal Clooney & George Clooney When the Oscar winner first started crushing on the barrister, he wasn't sure she'd feel the same way.
“I liked her, but I didn’t want to jump the shark on it,” George said on The Howard Stern Show about his early romance with Amal. “I couldn’t tell if she liked me. ‘Cause I’m 17 years older than her so she might’ve thought I was grandpa.
” However, it turns out she liked him right back and they wed in 2014. Nick Viall & Natalie Joy Age is only a number for the Bachelor alum, who is 18 years older than his wife . As he put it during a March 2025 episode of his The Viall Files podcast, "When it comes to age gaps, looks matter.
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