Bill Belichick, 74, and Jordon Hudson, 25, Broke Up a Year Ago Despite Recent Appearances Together

The couple split ‘late last year’ but continue to be ‘committed to their business partnerships and remain close friends,’ PEOPLE confirms

NEED TO KNOW

• North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson have split after 3 years together, PEOPLE confirms
• The pair quietly broke up late last year
• Their relationship drew scrutiny after Hudson shut down personal questions during Belichick’s viral CBS interview in 2025

Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson have called it quits.

The North Carolina football coach, 74, and Trouble Cup Enterprises founder, 25, broke up a year ago, PEOPLE confirms.

TMZ was the first to report their split.

Belichick and Hudson ended their relationship “late last year” but continue to be “committed to their business partnerships and remain close friends,” PEOPLE confirms.

The couple’s relationship was highly scrutinized after their April 2025 interview with CBS Sunday Morning went viral, where Hudson refused to share how the couple met.

“We’re not talking about this,” she sternly told interviewer Tony Dokoupil after he asked the eight-time Super Bowl champion coach about the origins of their relationship.

The two reportedly first crossed paths in February 2021 while Hudson was still in college at Bridgewater State.

Belichick and Hudson were first spotted together in January 2023. The couple was seen walking through the French Quarter in New Orleans, and in September of the same year, they were again spotted in the city on a dinner date.

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The former college cheerleader was protective of her relationship with Belichick while they were together, saying she was ready to “take punches” for her boyfriend and even asking UNC staff to filter negative comments about him on social media.

Hudson suggested that whoever monitors the UNC Football social media accounts could also be “subsequently deleting” the comments and “blocking users that are harassing BB,” according to The Athletic.

Before Hudson, Belichick was in a 16-year relationship with Linda Holliday. A source told PEOPLE in September 2023, after their split was confirmed, that the relationship had “run its course” and the couple had “been pretty separate for a while.” The source told PEOPLE, “Bill is all about football and very busy now. He doesn’t want a lot of public attention on this.”

Holliday, like Hudson, was professionally intertwined with Belichick at the time of their split. Holliday was the President of the Bill Belichick Foundation, while Hudson was working with Belichick on reclaiming the trademarks to his iconic Patriots phrases under her Trouble Cup Enterprises entity, as well as working with her former beau in his UNC role.