Jordon Hudson sparks Bill Belichick engagement buzz with ring sighting
Well, this certainly isn't going to slow down the engagement speculation.
Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, was seen Saturday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina wearing what appeared to be a ring on her left ring finger, according to photos snapped by TMZ.
The sighting comes less than a week after The New York Times reported that the former college cheerleader 'has told at least one person that she and Mr. Belichick are engaged to be married.'
5 Jordon Hudson fueled Bill Belichick engagement buzz after being photographed wearing a ring on her left ring finger in May 2025.
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5 The couple's romance was first revealed in 2024.
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TMZ cautioned, however, 'It's hard to make out if this is a big diamond engagement ring or not.'
Hudson, whose romance with Belichick, 73, was revealed last summer, has been spending ample time in North Carolina as the NFL legend prepares for his first season as head football coach of the Tar Heels.
Belichick, an eight-time Super Bowl winner, has fueled engagement buzz himself after his boat received an update from 'VIII Rings' to 'I +VIII Rings,' photos showed last week.
5 Jordon Hudson has been spending time in North Carolina, where Bill Belichick is preparing for his first season as coach of the Tar Heels.
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The couple's romance has been highly scrutinized recently, as Hudson stopped a question about how they met during Belichick's much-maligned 'CBS Sunday Morning' interview in late April.
When asked about the early days of their romance, Hudson told interviewer Tony Dokoupil, 'We're not talking about this.'
The fallout was swift, with former ESPN personality Pablo Torre launching a series of allegations against Hudson, claiming there's a 'deep worry' from Belichick's family over her impact on his legacy.
5 Bill Belichick recently supported Jordon Hudson during the Miss Maine USA competition.
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'There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill's legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades,' one family source told Torre on an early May installment of his 'Pablo Torre Finds Out' program.
Last week, Torre dove into viral Ring camera footage of Belichick that originally circulated in 2023 and claimed it was from a stay at an Airbnb with Hudson.
In 2024, when Belichick's relationship with Hudson was revealed, reports swirled that he had been exiting a residence owned by her.
'We saw the Ring video in the morning, not knowing who this was, but it was an older gentleman with a very young woman who checked in the night before,' the female owner told Torre on a recent installment of 'Pablo Torre Finds Out.'
5 Bill Belichick's romance with Jordon Hudson has been under a microscope in recent weeks.
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Hudson fired back at Torre in a since-deleted message last Friday when she shared what appeared to be a purported text exchange with the Airbnb owner.
'Pablo Torre's 'findings' have been nothing short of factually incorrect, slanderous, defamatory and targeted,' she wrote, as captured by TMZ. 'Can y'all please stop giving credibility to this 'reporter'?'
Torre responded to Hudson's post Sunday on X and said he stands by the reporting.
'I find it bizarrely appropriate, at this point, that Jordon Hudson would post this and then very quickly delete it. But to be perfectly clear: I stand by our reporting and the episodes we published,' he wrote.
Prior to his romance with Hudson, Belichick was in a long-term relationship with Linda Holliday, with news of the breakup emerging in 2023.
TMZ revealed last week Hudson was confronted by Holliday at a Nantucket holiday party last December.
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