Invoice Belichick Helps Girlfriend Jordon Hudson as She Competes in Miss Maine USA Pageant

Bill Belichick is Jordon Hudson‘s largest fan!

Belichick, 73, was in attendance on the Miss Maine USA pageant for the preliminary rounds on Saturday, Might 10, in Portland, as his 24-year-old girlfriend competed for the title.

The Tar Heels coach may very well be seen on the occasion supporting Hudson, who was noticed backstage carrying a strapless wrap minidress — in mild Carolina blue, a nod to UNC.

Hudson represented her hometown, Hancock, within the pageant.

Hudson, a former collegiate cheerleading champ at Bridgewater State College, introduced she was competing within the Miss Maine pageant in a post on Instagram on April 9, which is Worldwide Pageant Day.

“I couldn’t consider a greater day to share with the world that I shall be competing for Miss Maine USA 2025; representing my hometown, Hancock. 🫶🏼💜[insert mussel shell emoji],” she wrote on the time.

Hudson was chosen to obtain the consideration over 16 different girls competing for the title of Miss Maine USA 2025. The winner of the highest crown is mechanically chosen to characterize the New England state within the subsequent spherical of competitors, the 2025 Miss USA pageant.

Belichick’s assist for Hudson on the pageant comes simply after UNC denied a May 9 report from ESPN’s Pablo Torre claiming Hudson had been banned from the college’s soccer services.

In an announcement obtained by PEOPLE, the college mentioned there have been “false reviews about Jordon Hudson’s function.”

“Whereas Jordon Hudson isn’t an worker on the College or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Soccer services,” the assertion mentioned, including that Hudson will proceed to operate as a publicist for Belichick. “Jordon will proceed to handle all actions associated to Coach Belichick’s private model exterior of his obligations for Carolina Soccer and the College.”

Following the denial from UNC, Torre issued an announcement to PEOPLE doubling down on his report.

“The College of North Carolina can select to explain or change its place on Jordon Hudson’s involvement nonetheless it needs, following the publication of our episode,” Torre started in his assertion. “We requested remark and filed dozens of FOIA requests that weren’t happy. And we stand by the precise reporting in our episode, which got here from the best ranges of the soccer program.”

The conflicting reviews concerning Hudson’s entry to UNC Soccer got here simply over every week after the couple made headlines for an interview that turned uncomfortable on CBS Sunday Mornings on April 27. When journalist Tony Dokoupil requested Belichick, who was selling his e book The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football, how he met Hudson, she sternly shut the query down whereas performing as his publicist.

“We’re not talking about this,” she mentioned sternly to Dokoupil after he requested the eight-time Tremendous Bowl champion coach how he and Hudson first crossed paths.

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The journalist then turned his consideration to the glimpses the couple has already given into their relationship — Hudson’s Instagram posts, together with a snap of them doing beach yoga together, and a photo of their mermaid-fisherman Halloween costumes.

Belichick stayed comparatively mum in regards to the public’s notion of his relationship, solely saying, “I’ve by no means been too anxious about what everybody else thinks,” including that as a substitute, he simply tries “to do what I really feel like is finest for me, and what’s proper.”