WHEN BELICHICK’S GIRL WANTS TAYLOR TICKETS, HE FIGURES ELIZABETH TAYLOR
The Grump, 72, is dating a brunette who is 24, and while we want him to be happy in life without NFL coaching, only Hugh Hefner in celebritydom had a lady friend with an age gap bigger than 48 years
The triangle, we’ll call them. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, was caught in a rub-and-tug act at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. Tom Brady, his quarterback, lost his celebrated marriage with supermodel Gisele Bundchen. And Bill Belichick, the coach who is known for Spygate, is dating a girl after his 72nd birthday.
Jordon Hudson is 24, born in the same year he drafted Brady.
I have looked long and hard for a celebrity age gap bigger than 48 years. I found one: Hugh Hefner, when he was alive, married 26-year-old Crystal Harris when he was 86. Beyond that, Belichick beats Woody Allen, who dated Soon-Yi Previn when he was 56 and she was 19. He also beats Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Kelsey Grammer, Rod Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, Nicolas Cage and Dennis Quaid.
Online, Belichick has been called a “pedphile (sic)” and Hudson a “gold digger.” He also has been defended by a man who wrote, “Who are you to judge? She’s a legal adult (and) last I checked, at 21, you become an adult.” After which, she unwisely wrote back, “Thank goodness my mother let me have Facebook at 12 years old.” All I know is that The Grump and The Brunette are the most gossiped romantics in America, shown on recent nights during a dinner date in Nantucket before she was shown performing post-cheerleading stunts in the Boston area. Hudson wore a teal top, shorts and sneakers. Belichick has a slightly bigger front section than usual, which we noticed when he left her house in a walk of shame.
Many of us have open minds. Belichick just wants to be happy after he was fired by Kraft and has to deal with Pat McAfee on TV this fall. They’ve been dating for more than a year, and she clings to him like a teddy bear. I’d like them to double-date with Brady and Kraft, but God only knows who they’d bring. The three men split from each other, and their relationship continues in curious ways. The current gossip king is Belichick, who has three children and seven grandchildren and now dates a former student from Bridgewater State University — and must deal with jokes from Joy Behar on “The View.”
“There is only so much Viagra in the world,” she said.
To keep Hudson pleased, apparently.
He also is hearing stuff from Brady. “When somebody asked me which ring was my favorite, I used to say, ‘The next one.’ Now that I’m retired, my favorite is that Ring camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago,” said Brady, who added slinkily at his own Netflix roast, “You still got it! Respect.”
And Rob Gronkowski, of course. “Coach, you used to talk about Foxborough High School when we sucked. But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School: You were scouting your new girlfriend,” he said.
We don’t know what’s going to happen when their love affair ends. For now, a 64-year-old slinger who dated Hudson is defending her. “She is wise beyond her years, much more than any 20-something I’ve ever met in my life,” Joshua L. Zuckerman told TMZ. “The narrative about her character is not fair to her. … I feel bad that she’s caught up in this whirlwind. To be honest, I wish these internet trolls and paparazzi would leave her alone — and everyone else alone — and let them live their lives.”
We’re letting them. We’re just blown away, especially when she wants a stadium ticket to see “Taylor” and he figures it’s Elizabeth Taylor.
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Jay Mariotti, called “without question the most impacting Chicago sportswriter of the past quarter-century,’’ writes general sports columns for Substack while appearing on some of the 1,678,498 podcasts and shows in production today. He is an accomplished columnist, TV panelist and talk/podcast host. Living in Los Angeles, he gravitated by osmosis to film projects.