Normally I don’t pay much attention to celebrity news stories because the vast majority of them usually depict some combination of misery, stupidity, grief, or other unpleasant aspect of the human condition I’m all too familiar with. My own track record is filled with enough blunders as it is and I’d rather not waste the time contemplating moral equivalence just to establish arbitrary ownership of the high ground.
Having said that, there are exceptions.
Due to my insatiable thirst for knowledge, truth, critical thinking, reason, logic, or other worthwhile pursuits I somehow managed to stumble upon a headline involving a celebrity that wrecked everything I was working on for the rest of the day.
No, it wasn’t Justin Timberlake getting busted for a DUI although one can’t help feeling a little sorry for the guy, not because of what he did or the humiliation that followed, but knowing what waited for him once he got home. If the Timberlake backyard didn’t have a doghouse before his trip to the clink it does now, and he’s not only in it…he’s under it.
A juicy little scandal for sure but it doesn’t hold a candle to the gem I’ve affectionately labeled “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”. If you’re a football fan as I am then you have to know who Bill Belichick is: New England Patriots head coach for like 50 years, won a bunch of Super Bowls with a quarterback named Tom Brady, and is thus universally regarded as one of the greats in NFL history, which in my book pretty much makes Coach Belichick a celebrity.
So when the news broke this past week Bill Belichick at the age of 72 is in a relationship with a young woman nearly fifty years his junior I first thought May-December romances aren’t all that unusual, but damn. Fifty years is a big friggin difference! Sensing there was more to this than met the eye drove me to do a little digging, and not because I wanted to believe me. There are just too many things in today’s world that don’t pass the smell test and I assessed early on this was one of them.
Sure enough the reporting was all over the map. Initially this young lady, Jordon Hudson, was listed as 24 years old, but now it’s 23. The timeline of their relationship is murky at best and is nearly impossible for pinpointing “who was with who where and when” going all the way back to 2021, the year Belichick supposedly first met Ms. Hudson on a flight from Boston to Florida. Belichick’s previous girlfriend is in her 60s and the two dated for a number of years, most of them encompassing his time as head coach of the Patriots, but only recently parted ways because…
It was at this juncture I abandoned my efforts in going any further. Why? There were too many inconsistencies contained in the reporting. Too many legitimate questions that would never be answered, and quite frankly a bunch of other shit i.e., red flags popping up everywhere that indicated “something was amiss at the Circle K”. The biggest red flag to me was “all the sneaking around” over the course of many months (if not longer) for this to have started in the manner it’s been reported. I’ve formed my own assessment (hint: a picture is worth a thousand words) which paints a much different portrait, but I’m keeping it to myself. For now anyway.
In my line of work there’s always another thread to pull, then another, and another, then one after that. Let’s see what else drops shall we? Inquiring minds want to know.
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