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Business Insider
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
Jordon Hudson, Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend, has lost the chance to compete at Miss USA
Jordon Hudson won't be making it to Miss USA. The 24-year-old pageant queen earned third place at the Miss Maine competition on Sunday night. She lost the crown to Shelby Howell, a real-estate agent from Bangor. Hudson's boyfriend, 73-year-old NFL coaching legend Bill Belichick, was in the front row cheering her on throughout the competition. Hudson and Belichick's presence brought major media attention to the small pageant, which was held over the weekend at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland. Headlines have swirled about their relationship ever since the couple went public in June 2024, but they've intensified in recent weeks after Hudson was seen interrupting Belichick's "CBS Sunday Morning" interview in April. The New York Times reported that Hudson seemingly referred to the increased scrutiny while she was onstage at the Miss Maine pageant. "I'm feeling an immense amount of pride right now," she said. "I'm hoping that anybody who's watching this finds the strength to push through whatever it is that they're going through, and embodies that hate never wins." According to the Times, the new Miss Maine's press conference was cut short on Sunday after an official stopped Howell from answering questions about Belichick and the inclusion of transgender contestants. This year's competition featured the first transgender contestant in Miss Maine's history. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shelby Ann (@shelbyhowellofficial) Hudson, who was representing her hometown of Hancock, has a long career in pageants. She placed third runner-up at the 2020 Miss Massachusetts Teen USA competition and first runner-up at Miss Maine USA 2024. In January, Hudson wrote an Instagram post explaining why she believes "beauty queens are the contemporary suffragettes." "Like feminism, pageantry is malleable & looks a lot different now than it did 104 years ago, however, the essence and mission to perpetuate Women's Rights and Empowerment is never-changing," Hudson said. "Sure, both 'feminism' & 'pageantry' have flaws and connotative aspects (as does every other 'industry'), but we are all dedicated to finding the solutions to all of these issues," she continued. "Let it not be mistaken that our intentions are anything aside from deep and pure." It will be up to Bangor to try to win the national crown for Maine. The state has never won Miss USA in the pageant's 73-year history.
New York Post
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Belichick squeeze Jordon Hudson not winning over Miss Maine voters
She's no Miss Congeniality. Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson is the most famous of 17 contestants strutting their stuff in the Miss Maine USA pageant starting tonight — but in the online vote leading up to the contest she had a mere 146 votes, good for only seventh place. The public is able to vote for their favorite competitor for just $1 and the winner of the online competition gets the 'People's Choice Award,' and an automatic entry into its semifinals. Advertisement Lexi Bjork, a student at the University of Southern Maine, leads with 1,381 votes. She has stiff competition from Isabelle St. Cyr, the first transgender woman to compete for the Miss Maine crown, who has 447 votes. Hudson, the 'daughter of Maine fishermen,' as she highlights in her Instagram bio, was the runner-up in last year's Miss Maine pageant. Jordon Hudson is repping her native town of Hancock in the Miss Maine pageant. @jordon/Instagram Advertisement The newly-minted real estate mogul — Hudson now has a portfolio reportedly worth about $8 million — is a pageant veteran. She was third runner-up at the Miss Massachusetts Teen USA competition in 2020. She was supposed to compete in two pageants last year, but bailed on the second. 'The rule for Miss USA is you can compete in two states per year,' a competitor said. 'She competed for Maine and she was slated to compete for Alaska [but] she dropped out.' Hudson recently made headlines for hijacking Belichick's interview with 'CBS Sunday Morning,' and reportedly getting banned from the football facility at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her 73-year-old beau is the head football coach. Advertisement Hudson will participate in the contest's three categories — interview, swimsuit and evening gown — beginning Saturday night. The winner will be crowned Sunday. She announced her participation last month in an Instagram post. 'Happy International Pageant Day. I couldn't think of a better day to share with the world that I will be competing for Miss Maine USA 2025; representing my hometown, Hancock,' she wrote. Advertisement The 24-year-old is dating 73-year-old Bill Belichick, coach of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Getty Images Haters pounced. 'Did you win the gold digging crown?' one queried.
