Jordon Hudson, the girlfriend of North Carolina soccer coach Invoice Belichick, will not be banned from the workforce’s facility, the varsity stated Friday, disputing a report from a podcast launched earlier within the day.
“Whereas Jordon Hudson will not be an worker on the College or Carolina athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina soccer amenities,” an athletic division spokesperson stated in an announcement, noting there have been “false studies” about her function. “Jordon will proceed to handle all actions associated to Coach Belichick’s private model outdoors of his tasks for Carolina soccer and the college.”
Earlier, former ESPN reporter and persona Pablo Torre launched an episode of his podcast, “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” centered across the working relationship between Belichick, 73, and Hudson, 24. The episode reported that Hudson had been barred from the power.
After UNC launched its assertion, Torre stated on X that he stands by the reporting for his podcast, and the data “got here from the best ranges of the soccer program.”
“UNC can now select to explain or change its place on Jordon Hudson’s involvement nevertheless it needs, following the publication of our episode,” Torre wrote. “We requested remark and filed dozens of FOIA requests that weren’t happy.”
P.S. UNC can now select to explain or change its place on Jordon Hudson’s involvement nevertheless it needs, following the publication of our episode. We requested remark and filed dozens of FOIA requests that weren’t happy. And we stand by the precise reporting in our… https://t.co/O9rZSPW5K3
— Pablo Torre 🕳️ (@PabloTorre) Could 9, 2025
Hudson’s function has been below scrutiny in latest weeks following her involvement with a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview with Belichick selling his new e-book, The Artwork of Successful. CBS known as Hudson a “fixed presence,” and he or she interjected when a query arose about how the couple met.
“We’re not speaking about that,” Hudson stated off digital camera.
After the interview aired, Belichick stated in an announcement that the phase was “selectively edited” to counsel a “false narrative.”
Belichick stated he knowledgeable his e-book publicist that any promotional interviews would middle solely across the e-book’s content material. CBS stated there have been no preconditions to the interview.
Hudson and Belichick have stated they met on a flight in 2021 and started relationship in 2023. In Belichick’s e-book, launched this week, he referred to Hudson as his “thought mill” and “artistic muse.”
Hudson is scheduled to compete within the Miss Maine pageant starting Saturday. She was first runner-up within the 2024 pageant.
Belichick, who gained six Tremendous Bowls because the New England Patriots’ coach, was fired following the 2023 season when the workforce went 4-13, their third dropping season in 4 years. He spent the 2024 season doing a wide range of media roles, with Hudson serving a task in his work with ESPN and Underdog Fantasy.
North Carolina employed Belichick as coach in December 2024.
UNC was in discussions to be featured in NFL Movies’ “Laborious Knocks” documentary collection, which might have targeted on a university soccer workforce for the primary time. The partnership didn’t come to fruition, with Hudson enjoying an instrumental function in talks breaking down.
(Photograph: Jared C. Tilton / Getty Pictures)
