Footage of Rob Gronkowski dropping a second hint about Bill Belichick‘s love life has resurfaced after the former Patriots head coach’s romance with a 24-year-old was unearthed this week.
TMZ Sports broke the news of Belichick’s shock relationship with cheerleader Jordon Hudson – who is an astonishing 48 years younger than him – in a bombshell report on Friday night.
The 72-year-old is said to have hit it off with Hudson on a flight from the Boston-area to Florida back in 2021, before things began to heat up between the pair following his split from longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday.
It is believed they have been romantic for some time and are now considered an ‘item’ after taking their relationship to the next level.
After Belichick’s controversial romance with Hudson became public knowledge, Gronkowski’s joke about his former New England coach dating younger women at last month’s Roast of Tom Brady reemerged on social media.
‘Coach, you used to talk about Foxborough High School when we sucked,’ the ex-Patriots tight end said at the hit Netflix event. ‘But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School: you were scouting your new girlfriend.’
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Nevertheless, it turns out he dropped yet another hint about Belichick’s relationship with Hudson as recently as this week, joking about the NFL legend dating 24-year-olds while at Brady’s Patriots Hall of Fame ceremony.
In another clip which is doing the rounds again in light of the news, Gronk says in an interview with Barstool Sports: ‘Doing [the ceremony] on June 12, obviously it’s the sixth month of the year – he won six Super Bowls here. Tom’s number [was] 12.
‘And 2024 is just [the] age [of] girls that Tom and Bill are talking to now, 24-year-olds.’
Belichick and Hudson are said to have bonded over a philosophy project that Hudson – a student-athlete as well as an entrepreneur – had been working on at the time.
They reportedly exchanged contact information after landing and kept in contact over the next few months while discussing the former Bridgewater State University student’s school work and cheerleading routines.
They initially kept things lowkey and were only briefly spotted on rare occasions, but TMZ claims Hudson secretly visited Gillette Stadium to support her man during the 2022 and 2023 seasons with the Patriots.
Their relationship has become more public of late, with Belichick spotted rooting for her at a cheerleading competition in Maryland earlier this year.
People at the competition told TMZ that he kept to himself and sat in the back row after watching at least one of the team’s routines before exiting the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.
Belichick has also been seen with Hudson – an executive director for special members club Trouble Club Enterprises – on a work trip to Croatia, while she even attended Tom Brady‘s Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony with him this week.
Hudson is even understood to have been helping him with his business endeavors of late.
After bidding an emotional goodbye to the Patriots, where he spent 23 seasons and won six Super Bowls, Belichick failed to land another NFL job ahead of the 2024-25 season.
He is instead set to become a regular fixture on ESPN’s Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli Manning, before potentially returning to coaching when a vacancy opens up.