According to sources, Jordon Hudson, a considerably younger female friend of Bill Belichick, “demanded” to serve as an executive producer on the renowned football coach’s now-canceled season of the documentary series “Hard Knocks.”
An insider with knowledge of the NFL Films project told Page Six that the 24-year-old former cheerleader also requested to watch the show’s daily schedule and allegedly threatened to deny executives access to the coach’s “IP” until they treated her with dignity.
“The ‘Hard Knocks’ people were like, we can’t deal with this goodbye, and they walked away,” the insider stated in reference to Hudson’s power play.
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“I apologize, but you’re not Priscilla Presley,” the individual who knew about the action stated.
According to People, Hudson’s company, Trouble Cub Enterprises, applied for 14 registrations with the federal trademark office last month in an attempt to recover a number of phrases that the coach came up with but that are currently owned by the New England Patriots, his former team.
“Do Your Job” and “Ignore the Noise” are among the sayings, but Hudson reportedly added “(Bill’s Version)” at the end, reportedly motivated by Taylor Swift’s re-release of her own songs, according to the article.
The breakdown of “Hard Knocks,” according to our source, follows the New York Times sports website the Athletic’s Wednesday report that the planned series starring Belichick, 73, had its production halted in March, in part because Hudson had allegedly “requested to be heavily involved in the project.”
It was announced earlier this year that the popular show would portray Belichick’s first season as head football coach at the University of North Carolina. Production is scheduled to start on March 1 and run for two months.
However, the idea was abandoned in a matter of two days.
The NFL’s vice president for corporate affairs and commercial operations, Jessica Boddy, allegedly acknowledged via email on March 3 that they will “not proceed with the production of the Belichick project,” according to The Athletic.
“The conversation took a turn we were not comfortable with,” she reportedly wrote.
According to Belichick, he has “both a personal and professional relationship” with his girlfriend.
She was COO of “Belichick Productions (Coach Show)” from August 2024 to February, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She is also the founder and CEO of Trouble Cub Enterprises, according to the page. The company is described as “an East Coast based holding company for a complex portfolio of businesses across a wide range of industries including cosmetics, real estate, media production, merchandising, creative consultation, business strategy, and investment” in an online job posting for a media assistant at Trouble Cub.
According to The Athletic, the coach himself requested the “behind-the-scenes audiovisual project about Bill Belichick’s transition from the National Football League to Division I college football and the process of building a team.”
After a picture that Page Six was able to obtain showed the 24-year-old showing off a ring at an American Museum of Natural History luncheon in New York City, there have been whispers that the May-December couple is engaged.
Three years after meeting on a plane, she and Belichick announced their relationship to the world in 2024.
In a moment that went viral, Hudson cut off Belichick’s “CBS Sunday Morning” interview when he was asked about the airplane meet-cute.
“We’re not discussing that,” she said.
The former cheerleader was a “constant presence” during the interview with the football icon, according to the CBS program, and neither of them felt “comfortable” discussing how they met.
“I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation centered on the book,” Belichick said in a statement on Wednesday, defending Hudson, who he had expected to talk about only his new book during the interview.
Hudson, according to him, was “just doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on track, not deflecting any specific question or topic.”
“There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation,” CBS retorted in a later statement of its own. This was consistently confirmed with his publisher, Simon & Schuster, both prior to and following the interview.
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