MY THOUGHTS ON THE BILL BELICHICK ROMANCE DEBACLE

With the odd announcement last week that seventy-three-year-old football Coach Bill Belichick had just gotten engaged to his much, much, much younger girlfriend, twenty-four-year-old Jordon Hudson, (they have a forty-nine year age difference, to be exact,) I figured that it’s finally time for me to weigh-in on that crazy situation. And what I have to ultimately say just might surprise you, at least a bit.

Of course, as just about everyone does, I’m mostly disgusted by what I’ve seen of Bill and Jordon’s connection. I had read about her and their weird entanglement, but had no thoughts. At first.

But then I saw her controlling behavior on that CBS morning show.  If you’ve been living under a rock, or are just immune to celebrity shenanigans at this point, what happened is that Belichick was taping his appearance on CBS Sunday Morning to discuss his new book, which is mainly about his football career. The host asked him about his new relationship, (which Bill has admitted they’re in,) and then asked “How did you guys meet?” The answer, on a plane four years ago, when she was in college, is something that Jordon has openly posted everywhere, so it wasn’t exactly investigative reporting of the interviewer to pose that query. But, from her perch off to the side, Jordon called-out, “We’re not talking about this.” How strange. And annoying. And a waste of my time because it sent me digging to see if perhaps they had actually really met when she was underage! Or at a brothel she was perhaps working at. Or some other subterfuge. But, no, it appears the plane seats are the true answer, so why did she butt in to the interview? (Perhaps it was because Bill and his former long-time girlfriend broke up just two years ago, and that supposed meeting with Jordon took place four years ago, which is how long she says they’ve been together!) It would have worked into her publicity-for-herself scheme to get him talking about their love affair in that TV interview!!! So I can’t quite figure-out her angle in that interview, other than that maybe she’s trying to get PR jobs, and wanted to show how tough she can be in that world.

Perhaps even worse than that debacle was this one: As Mr. X and I were watching the Super Bowl in February, and we saw that Dunkin’ Donuts commercial with all famous guys and one unknown woman, I asked him who she is. Of course, he had no idea, either, and we both thought it was odd to have one chick, and a non-famous one at that, in there. It was like a “which one doesn’t belong” puzzle. And then, just recently, when all the nonsense came out about this weird coupling, it turned-out that the man is Bill’s girlfriend, (who we now know to be Jordon,) who had accompanied him to the shoot, and then insisted that she be in it, too! She must have threatened to pull him if they didn’t also put her in it, or something to that effect. (I only wish that I had thought to do that for myself with all of Mr. X’s movies and TV shows! Although he, nor any other normal significant other, would never have allowed it.)

So, after those couple of instances, it does seem to me, as it does to his children, friends, and associates, that the girl is using him. And that he’s just a silly old man who is being taken advantage of. And that they worry that she may have already had him sign over everything he owns to her! And they’re also worried about his will. (But he just had a serious girlfriend of sixteen years, so wouldn’t she have inherited a lot of it if they had stayed together?)

I’m still totally against Jordon, (whose parents obviously didn’t know how to spell “Jordan,”) but after I recently read about her family and upbringing, I also have a bit of a different view about her.

She grew-up poverty-stricken in a small fishing town in Maine. So when she got old enough to figure-out her life going forward, it looks like she vowed to do everything she can to break out of that situation. And, as a pretty, (and physically flexible,) girl, she had options.

She tried competing in cheerleading and pageants, (she still does the latter, even as late as a couple of weeks ago!,) and then she had the good fortune to sit next to the very rich, very successful, but also very much older, former coach of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick, on a plane. (Although that meeting is often disputed. How did a poor college girl afford first class, or, conversely, why would Belichick be sitting in coach?)

And I’m assuming that he found her to be pretty and smart and perhaps even charming, and they kept in touch. And I picture that he asked to kiss her one night, and it went from there.

It’s been reported that she has amassed a multi-million-dollar real estate portfolio since they’ve been together; I’m pretty sure that he gave her advice on how to do that, and probably even “lent” her the capital for her endeavors. (If you’re curious how that all came about, here’s an article I found on the topic: www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/bill-belichick-girlfriend-jordon-hudson-215614326.html.)

And she’s clearly had a tiny bit of facial surgery, so perhaps he bankrolled that, as well. I actually think she looked much cuter before, when she was young, innocent, and fresh-faced. Now she looks like she’s in her forties! Still pretty, but much different with a few natural-looking tweaks.

But you know what? I can’t believe I’m even saying this, but…let them have their happiness! He gets to have a good-looking chick on his arm, (and have sex with her,) and she gets the monied life she’s been seeking since she was a tot. They’re not hurting anyone except for perhaps his heirs, who are worried about their inheritance, as they should be, actually. While it is possible that she really does love him, we all hope he gets a pre-nup, if he even has any money left by the time they get married!!!

I’m pretty sure that she would not have even talked to him if he wasn’t rich, which just may be why she was sitting in *first class to begin with. She appears to be a user, but he seems happy to be used like that. Their story is reminiscent of how that Markle woman set-out to bag Prince Harry. And I personally know one other woman who read that book about how to get rich men, and it worked for her; she got everything she wanted, and then left him. So there are people like that, of course. *[Note: No one actually seems to know the real story of where they were when they met. She would not have had the finances at the time to sit in first class, and there’s no way that Bill Belichick would have been sitting anywhere else! That’s why many are suspicious of their “meeting.”]

I do understand the whole story a bit because way back in the day, and over a few years, I had two older gent semi-suitors. They were only suitors, not boyfriends, and only semi at that, because I’ve always had a boyfriend, since I was fifteen. So these two gents were people I’d hang-out with, who would take me to dinner and parties and things like that, and who made their feelings for me known, but that was it. And I hung-out with them mainly when my boyfriend was working out of town for a few months, so my schedule allowed me to spend time with other people. But always with my bae’s knowledge of who my friends were, of course.

But had I been single at those times, I honestly could have possibly wound-up with one of the older men being my boyfriend. They were both very successful, wealthy, charming, and handsome, and adored me. And took me to great restaurants and show biz parties, and even offered to buy me things and take me to Paris, no strings attached! So what wasn’t to like? Actually, when I was even younger than that, (think late teen-ager to very early twenties,) I used to be attracted to older men, I think because I never got along with my father, so there’s that. But kissing someone so elderly senior would most likely have been a different story for me. I don’t know if I could have done that, as Jordon Hudson apparently can.

Although not firsthand, I also understand her desperation to not be poor anymore. I’ve had two friends who have done everything possible to escape their poverty-stricken upbringings. One even named her child “Sterling,” just to sound monied!

And, of course, there are some other famous May-December romances that appear to be honest ones, with all of the couples I’m about to mention staying together for decades and producing much happiness. The marriage of the late Tony Bennett and his wife Susan, who were a mere forty years apart, comes to mind. [Note: Right after I wrote that sentence, I, out of the blue, read that his daughters were not happy with their union!]  And what about the both-recently-deceased Gene Hackman and his thirty-one-years younger wife? Here are some more: Dick Van Dyke and his wife, Arlene Silver, (forty-six-year gap); Mick Jagger and his ballerina girlfriend and baby mama, Melanie Hamrick, (forty-three-year gap); Robert Duvall and his wife, Luciana, (forty-one-year gap); Dennis Quaid and his wife, Laura, (thirty-nine-year gap); Patrick Stewart and his wife, Sunny, (thirty-eight-year gap); Robert De Niro and his girlfriend and baby mama, Tiffany Chen, (thirty-five-year gap); Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi, (thirty-four-year gap); David Foster and Katharine McPhee, (thirty-four-year gap); Richard Gere and his wife Alejandra, (thirty-three-year gap); Jeff Goldblum and his wife, Emilie, (thirty-one-year gap.) The list goes on and on.

But this one takes the cake! Their forty-nine-year age gap makes Bill actually more like a grandfather to Jordon than a father! On that tip, there was also the long-ago marriage of Anna Nicole Smith and her on-the-verge-of-being-a-nonagenarian new hubby, which, with their sixty-three-year age gap, most people assumed was for his money—which it did appear to be—so I can understand the skepticism about Jordon Hudson. But, again, just let these old men have fun! If that’s what their hard-won big bucks have reaped for them, so be it.

Still, I think it’s somewhat of a dangerous situation for Belichick. His new job, as the football coach at University of North Carolina, is already in jeopardy because the powers-that-be over there want his paramour to stay out of it. Everyone was upset when she recently strolled onto the field during a practice to fix his microphone, (which football personnel wear to communicate with their teams.) As obnoxious as that was, wouldn’t we all love to have someone look-out for us like that? (For an example, once, when I was one of the hosts for a national telethon, but in my own section where the audience could feel close to me, I had my two best friends right there with me. When I got home, Mr. X asked why my bangs were so awful, making me look horrible. When I saw the recording, I asked my friends why they didn’t let me know when I was off-camera between my duties! They said they knew I looked bad, but didn’t want to bother me. I could have used someone like Hudson looking-out for me in that instance!)

Now, as a distraction from our own problems, and all the horribleness in the world right now, we’ll all be watching to see how this Belichick-Hudson saga continues. My money is on marriage for them, and then her own reality show, (ala Markle or Hilaria Baldwin,) and then an affair for her with a much younger man. But we’ll all see, won’t we? If I believed in betting, I’d sure take wagers on my theory right about now.