Jordon Hudson’s 64-year-old ex has come to the defense of her budding romance with former Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
Joshua L. Zuckerman, who told TMZ Sports the two met several years ago, is pushing back at critics’ claims she is only with the 72-year-old, six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach for his money.
Zuckerman and Hudson, a 23-year-old cheerleader, had an on-and-off again relationship and became an item after finding common interests in talking business, philosophy, psychology and nature, he told the outlet.
Her relationship with the businessman ceased not too long before Hudson started seeing Belichick.
“She is wise beyond her years, much more than any 20-something I’ve ever met in my life,” Zuckerman told TMZ. “The narrative about her character is not fair to her.”
Hudson and Belichick, who was still with longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday at the time, met on a flight in 2021 and took a smiling selfie together after hitting it off over a logic project she was working on for school, and the coach even signed her copy of “Deductive Logic.”
He and Hudson’s relationship became public last week, though they had been together since 2022 after the coach’s breakup with Holliday.
Belichick was exiting Hudson’s house, the Daily Mail reported, when Ring camera footage surfaced on social media in November 2023 showing him shirtless on his way out of her pad.
Zuckerman, however, has been sick of all the backlash his ex has received over the relationship with Belichick.
“I’ve been getting calls left and right from news stations about my relationship with Jordon Hudson,” he said. “I have been involved with Jordon platonically and romantically and I consider her a good friend. I feel bad that she’s caught up in this whirlwind.”
coach Bill Belichick. Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Zuckerman wishes that the “internet trolls and paparazzi” just leave Hudson and Belichick alone.
“Let them live their lives,” he said.
Hudon and Belichick were seen in Croatia together a few weeks ago, and they attended Tom Brady’s Patriots Hall of Fame ceremony in Foxborough.
The couple were spotted together in Nantucket this week, boarding Belichick’s $225,000 boat named VIII Rings and then went out for a date night and dined with friends at The Boarding House.
Hudson then returned to cheerleading practice for East Celebrity Elite Hingham in the Boston area Thursday night.
Belichick, who has supported Hudson at cheer events since they started dating, is currently out of football since he and the Patriots parted ways after 24 seasons earlier this year.
New England finished an abysmal 4-13 last season.
