Bill Belichick is opening up about his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson’s role in managing his various professional commitments.
“I stay focused on football and, some of the other opportunities that come along, Jordon looks at those and can dig into them a little bit deeper,” Belichick, 73, said on the Friday, May 16, episode of “The Pivot” podcast. “But really, what she does is help me spend my time on football, and that’s what’s important to me.”
Belichick has been dating Hudson, who is 48 years his junior, since 2021 after they met on an airplane. Since then, the couple’s age-gap romance has raised eyebrows and sparked speculation about whether Hudson was making decisions regarding Belichick’s professional engagements and coaching schedule at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
On Thursday’s podcast appearance, Belichick was specifically asked to list Hudson’s “actual job responsibilities.”
“Well, nothing with North Carolina. That would be No. 1,” Belichick stated. “It would be personal opportunities, [like] a speaking thing, appearance on this or talk about this or somebody happens to want an autograph, that type of thing. So, she kind of helped organize that for me.”
Belichick also explained why he asked his UNC colleagues to “copy Jordon on these [email] requests” he received at the start of his coaching gig.
“So she could, at least, filter through them because we didn’t have a sports information guy,” Belichick said. “That was taken as ‘Jordon’s running the sports information department.’ She’s not doing it. I mean, there was nobody to help me sort them out, so I was asking her to do that.”
While Belichick further stressed that Hudson is not involved in football or UNC duties, she only “makes recommendations or gives guidance” regarding other opportunities.
“That was similar to the book,” he added of his upcoming memoir. “There were certain things in the book, as I was writing it, that she looked at from a business perspective. It didn’t really fit the business narrative that the book was intended to target, and so, not only did she create those pages, but she also brought a business perspective to some of the narratives that came out in the book that was very helpful.”
Belichick, who said that Hudson “had a lot to do” with developing The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football, also praised her business knowledge before they got together.
“Jordon has her own businesses and she’s savvy in those,” he added. “I’m football and I let her help me with business.”
Belichick and Hudson’s relationship isn’t all business. During his “Pivot” appearance, he was also asked about their now-viral beach acrobatic yoga session earlier this year.
“Trying to stay young,” he quipped when asked whether he enjoyed balancing Hudson on his feet.
