Jordon Hudson's power play led HBO to back out of UNC 'Hard Knocks' series Bill Belichick wanted: report

North Carolina's shot programme was expected to get its ain offseason "Hard Knocks" bid with HBO, but Jordon Hudson, Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend, reportedly played a relation successful it fizzling out. 

Now, details person emerged astir why.

Hudson tried a powerfulness play that didn’t enactment retired successful her favor, according to Page Six. 

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Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson connected the reddish carpet earlier the Super Bowl LIX NFL Honors astatine Saenger Theatre successful New Orleans Feb. 6, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

Before HBO’s woody with UNC fell through, Hudson reportedly "demanded" to beryllium an enforcement shaper connected the programme that would travel Belichick down the scenes during his archetypal offseason arsenic a assemblage caput coach. 

Hudson besides allegedly asked NFL Films, which has worked alongside HBO for years with the series, for "dailies of the projected show," portion saying executives needed to "treat her with respect, oregon they wouldn’t get to usage the coach’s ‘IP.’"

Hudson’s alleged relation successful the woody falling done was archetypal reported by The Athletic.

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"The ‘Hard Knocks’ radical were like, we can’t woody with this. Goodbye. And they walked away," an insider told Page Six. "Sorry, it’s not similar you’re Priscilla Presley."

Jessica Boddy, the NFL's vice president for commercialized operations and concern affairs, reportedly sent an email to UNC’s counsel March 3 saying the showmakers "will not proceed with the accumulation of the Belichick project."

Boddy added that "the speech took a crook we were not comfy with."

Emails from the study besides bespeak Belichick wanted the amusement to happen, with filming scheduled for March 1. But assemblage shot fans hoping to spot Belichick astatine enactment with his UNC staff, curating the roster and transitioning into this NIL satellite of football, volition beryllium disappointed. 

North Carolina Tar Heels caput shot manager Bill Belichick during halftime astatine Dean E. Smith Center.  (Bob Donnan/Imagn Images)

Belichick and Hudson’s narration has created nationalist buzz, particularly aft their awkward interrogation connected "CBS Sunday Morning." 

After disapproval came successful droves, Belichick issued a connection Wednesday. 

"I agreed to talk with ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ to beforehand my caller book, ‘The Art of Winning — Lessons from My Life successful Football.’ Prior to this interview, I intelligibly communicated with my publicist astatine Simon & Schuster that immoderate promotional interviews I participated successful would hold to absorption solely connected the contents of the book," helium said.

"Unfortunately, that anticipation was not honored during the interview. I was amazed erstwhile unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to support the speech centered connected the book. After this occurred respective times, Jordon, with whom I stock some a idiosyncratic and nonrecreational relationship, stepped successful to reiterate that constituent to assistance absorption the discussion. 

"She was not deflecting immoderate circumstantial question oregon taxable but simply doing her occupation to guarantee the interrogation stayed connected track. Some of the clips marque it look arsenic though we were avoiding the question of however we met, but we person been unfastened astir the information that Jordon and I met connected a formation to Palm Beach successful 2021."

Jordon Hudson, the woman of Bill Belichick, was successful attendance astatine Loudermilk Center for Excellence.  (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Images)

Belichick added that the "final eight-minute conception does not bespeak the productive 35-minute speech we had, which covered a wide scope of topics related to my career.

"Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from conscionable a fewer minutes of the interrogation to suggest a mendacious communicative — that Jordon was attempting to power the speech — which is simply not true," helium added. 

CBS released a connection of its own, saying it agreed to talk with Belichick successful a "wide-ranging interview."

"There were nary preconditions oregon limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his steadfast earlier the interrogation took spot and aft it was completed," the institution stated.

Hudson has been heavy progressive successful Belichick’s nonrecreational life, according to aggregate reports. 

North Carolina Tar Heels shot caput manager Bill Belichick and woman Jordon Hudson during the archetypal fractional of a crippled betwixt the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils astatine Dean E. Smith Center March 8, 2025, successful Chapel Hill, N.C.  (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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Their narration has been much successful the spotlight precocious owed to Belichick’s accomplishment connected societal media. And they attended respective events together, including the NFL Honors successful February. Hudson besides attended UNC’s outpouring game. 

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