The North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the Stanford Cardinal, 20-15, on Saturday, November 8, but the real showdown could have taken place off the field between Jordan Hudson and her boyfriend Bill Belichickthe daughter-in-law of.
Hudson, 24, and Jennifer Schmittwho is married to Belichick’s son Stephaneboth attended the match but appeared awkwardly keeping their distance from each other during and after the match, in photos obtained by TMZ.
They each wore white tops with blue skirts, but watched the game from separate suites, arms crossed and eyes fixed on the field. (Belichick, 73, is in his first season as UNC head coach and Stephen, 38, is the team’s defensive coordinator.)
Although they were dressed alike, Hudson stood out by sporting a necklace with the word “Banned,” an apparent nod to the offseason rumor that she had been banned from North Carolina football facilities.
Even without a verbal confrontation between Hudson and Schmitt, their frosty non-encounter is notable, coming six months after Schmitt appeared to lash out at Hudson via social media.
This happened amid the fallout from the infamous Belichick affair. CBS Sunday morning interview in April, in which Hudson stepped in to shut down a reporter’s question Tony Dokoupil about how the couple met. Schmitt responded to the comedian Nikki Glaserwho wrote via Instagram that Hudson “acted as her publicist.”
“Publicists act professionally and do not storm by delaying an interview,” Schmitt wrote in the comments.
One of Hudson’s family members said Us every week exclusively in September that Belichick was “not happy” with Schmitt’s comments and viewed them as “fanning the flames” of controversy.
Jordon Hudson supported his boyfriend, Bill Belichick, as his University of North Carolina football team earned a resounding victory in Chapel Hill on Saturday, September 13. Hudson, 24, was spotted watching the action from the sidelines at Kenan Memorial Stadium on Saturday, as the Tar Heels posted an impressive 41-6 victory over the Richmond Spiders. […]
Hudson, for her part, defended herself on Instagram after the incident, writing, “I will not be cyberbullied into submission. I will continue to stand for love, authenticity, and the permissibility of nonconformity. They can burn me at the stake, but they can’t turn out my light!”
The day after CBS Sunday morning During the interview, Belichick attempted to clear the air by releasing a statement, saying he was under the impression the interview would focus solely on his book, The art of winning: lessons from my life in football.
“Prior to this interview, I clearly communicated with my publicist at Simon & Schuster that any promotional interviews I participated in would agree to focus solely on the content of the book,” he wrote at the time.
“Unfortunately, this expectation was not honored during the interview,” he continued. “I was surprised when unrelated topics were introduced, and I expressed several times to reporter Tony Dokoupil and the producers that I preferred to keep the conversation focused on the book. After this happened several times, Jordon, with whom I share both a personal and professional relationship, stepped in to reiterate this point to help refocus the discussion. She was not deflecting any specific question or topic but was simply doing her job to ensure the interview stayed on target. way.”
A CBS spokesperson objected to Belichick’s account, saying in a statement: “When we agreed to speak to Mr. Belichick, it was for a high-profile interview. There were no preconditions or limitations on this conversation. This was confirmed multiple times with his editor before and after the interview.”
