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Jordon Hudson slams journalist for 'slanderous, defamatory' reports on relationship with Bill Belichick

Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, deleted an Instagram story early Friday calling out journalist Pablo Torre for his reports about Hudson and Belichick's controversial relationship. 

"Pablo Torre’s ‘findings’ have been nothing short of factually incorrect, slanderous, defamatory and targeted," Hudson wrote in the deleted post. "Can y’all please stop giving credibility to this ‘reporter?’"

Hudson's post came the same day Torre released a podcast episode that included an interview with the owners of an Airbnb property that Belichick was seen leaving early in their relationship in 2023. 

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"We saw the Ring video in the morning, not knowing who this was, but it was an older gentleman with a very young woman who checked in the night before," the female owner of the Airbnb told Torre.

Then the male owner of the Airbnb told Torre, "She’s with this creepy old guy who’s either her relative or a drug dealer was the first thing [we thought]. Because of the age discrepancy, you go, ‘He must be a freaking coke dealer. And then I started looking. I’m like, ‘That does look like Belichick.’

"At first, we thought she was like a dancer or an escort," the male owner added. "She said she was a dancer. Something was off. It just didn’t make sense."

Hudson's since-deleted Instagram story included a screenshot of text messages with the Airbnb owner discussing unauthorized guests and parking.

Torre provided a statement to People addressing Hudson's claims. 

"I find it bizarrely appropriate, at this point, that Jordon Hudson would post that and then delete it," he said, "But to be perfectly clear: I stand by our reporting and the episodes we published."

Torre previously reported that Hudson had been banned from the University of North Carolina football complex earlier in May. However, the university released a statement denying that report shortly after Torre's report came out. 

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"While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities. Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University," the unversity's athletic program said in a statement.

Torre also said he had heard from sources in the Belichick family there is a "deep worry" that Hudson could be "detrimental" to his legacy.

Torre released a statement of his own, doubling down on his reporting on Hudson being banned at UNC.

"The University of North Carolina can choose to describe or change its position on Jordon Hudson’s involvement however it wishes, following the publication of our episode. We requested comment and filed dozens of FOIA requests that were not satisfied. And we stand by the specific reporting in our episode, which came from the highest levels of the football program," he said.

The 73-year-old and 24-year-old made their relationship public last year. And Hudson gained more notoriety last month when she interrupted a CBS interview with Belichick.

Belichick has been publicly linked to the 24-year-old Hudson since 2023. 

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The Mystery About Bill Belichick’s Shirtless Ring Cam Video Solved — Mostly

23 May 2025 at 10:36

One of the great mysteries surrounding Bill Belichick’s relationship with girlfriend Jordon Hudson finally has a resolution.

In 2023, a shirtless Ring surveillance camera video of Belichick, 73 slinking out of an unknown home circulated online. 

While details about the video remained scarce, it didn’t prevent Belichick’s former New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady, from bringing it up at his infamous live Netflix roast in May 2024. 

“Everybody asks me which ring is my favorite,” Brady, 47, said. “I used to say, ‘The next one.’ But now that I’m retired, my favorite Ring is the camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago.”

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At the time, it was believed that Belichick was leaving Hudson’s house, who was his rumored girlfriend at the time. 

However, on the Friday, May 23 episode of the “Pablo Torre Finds Out” podcast, journalist Pablo Torre reportedly uncovered the real story behind the video — and even found a new one. 

Torre, 39, managed to discover a separate Ring camera video of a “very shirtless” Belichick leaving the same home around the same time as the first video, which were both discovered to be taken in July 2023 when Belichick was still head coach of the Patriots. 

Using a team of geo guessers, including social media personality Rainbolt, Torre was able to zero in on the exact location of the house in the video: an Airbnb in Winthrop, Massachusetts, roughly 7 miles outside of Boston. 

Not only did Torre find the location of the home, he made the trip there himself. 

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Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

During his time in Winthrop, Torre met the married owners of the Airbnb, who live directly above oceanside property. In an interview with Torre, the owners recalled Hudson and Belichick’s fateful stay.

“We saw the Ring video in the morning, not knowing who this was,” the female owner claimed. “But this is an older gentleman with a very young woman who checked in the night before.”

The male owner remembered thinking Belichick was Hudson’s “relative or a drug dealer.”

Upon closer examination, however, the male owner thought, “That does look like Belichick.”

Despite booking the Airbnb for four nights, the owners said Hudson was barely there. 

“As the week went on, we were thinking she was an escort or something,” the female owner said. 

Us Weekly has reached out to Belichick and Hudson.

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When it comes to how the Ring camera footage eventually got circulated months after Hudson and Belichick’s stay, the owners suspect one of their friends was responsible for leaking it after the video was sent to them. 

Torre made it clear that he does not believe the couple nor Hudson herself were responsible for giving the video of Belichick to the media. 

To confirm that Hudson and Belichick stayed in the rental property, Torre found a review that Hudson left on Airbnb in July 2023 after their booking. 

She wrote, “Great spot. Great views. Great host. Great value. 👍🏻

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Scheana Shay Hints She Saw Marciano Leave to Allegedly Hook Up With Jessi

23 May 2025 at 10:33

After Marciano Brunette claimed he had an affair with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jessi Ngatikaura — which she denied — Scheana Shay is now entering the conversation to share what she saw take place.

“I have no NDA signed. I can say whatever the f*** I want. But out of respect for all of the viewers who are left on that cliffhanger [on season 2 of Mormon Wives], I don’t want to reveal too much because I know a lot,” Scheana, 40, teased on the Friday, May 23, episode of her “Scheananigans” podcast.

Scheana claimed that Marciano, 31, told her — and Demi Engemann — about his alleged affair with Jessi.

“The three of us had a FaceTime call together after that night at TomTom. I did not see [Marciano and Jessi] making out but they were, however, all over each other. Very, very flirty,” Scheana alleged. “I literally was standing right next to him and I was like, ‘Damn, I don’t greet him with hugs like that.’”

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According to Scheana, that group outing led to her sister questioning the interactions between Jessi, 32, and Marciano as well. She said, “My sister was like, ‘What’s going on with Marciano and Jessi?’ She goes, ‘His hand was on her thigh the entire show.'”

Scheana claimed the situation got even more confusing when they went to Jessi’s hotel room that night. They spoke with Jessi’s husband, Jordan Ngatikaura, and then were about to leave at 3 a.m. when Scheana and her husband, Brock Davies, noticed Marciano wasn’t with them.

“I thought they already had each other’s numbers but I don’t know. So then he ends up coming down in the elevator. And Brock goes, ‘Oh, you think they just got one in?’ I’m like, ‘No! What are you talking about? We were just on FaceTime with Jordan. Absolutely not,'” she recalled. “Maybe they were just finishing a conversation or something they didn’t want to say in front of us.”

Scheana noted that Jessi has been outspoken about how she “is not in an open marriage” and “not a swinger” after previously discussing swinging in a past relationship. On the car ride home, however, Marciano appeared to be in contact with Jessi.

“We get back to the house and he’s like, ‘I think I’m going to go back.’ And I’m like, ‘Excuse me? No, you are not.’ Brock was livid. He’s like, ‘I swear to God. That is someone else’s wife,'” she continued. “Marciano’s like, ‘Well, for all I know, she’s a swinger. They’re open.’ I’m like, ‘Before you walk out of this door, you message her and you say, ‘Is Jordan cool with this?'”

Marciano sent Jessi a message in front of Scheana, with the Vanderpump Rules alum claiming, “[Jessi] says something [in response to his question about an open marriage] along the lines of like, ‘Oh yeah, definitely. Haha.’ Something that was very affirmative and was a yes. He shows me the text and he’s like, ‘I’m out.'”

Scheana alleged that Marciano returned four hours later. As Vanderpump Rules viewers may remember, Scheana confirmed that she has most of her friends’ locations saved on her phone and claimed she saw Marciano and Jessi were located at her hotel room.

“I have Marciano insinuating and alluding to like, ‘Yeah, that happened last night,'” Scheana said before noting that Jessi denied anything took place between her and Marciano. “I’m like, ‘Jessi, I know both of your locations were in the same place.’ She goes, ‘No. He went and saw another girl and didn’t want to go back into your house that late in the middle of the night. He asked if he could come crash in my hotel room and he just slept on the little like couch chair.”

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A source close to production tells Us Weekly that the drama “will all play out on camera.”

Scheana’s version of events comes after Marciano claimed on season 2 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives that he had an affair with Jessi. During an interview with Bustle on Thursday, May 22, Jessi subtly addressed the drama.

“That was definitely a hard watch. We are continuing filming, so you guys will see this story unfold,” she shared. “I would say that viewers can look forward to me being very vulnerable and going behind the curtain of my real life and marriage.”

Jessi noted that, hopefully, being candid about her situation in the next season would “help a lot of women” going through something similar, adding, “Because of the show, I can’t say much about it. But relationships are really hard, and people make mistakes.”

After watching Marciano’s scene with Layla Taylor, Jessi clarified that there was more to the story.

“I will say that it’s not what he made it sound [like]. What he said was not accurate. I wish I could speak now,” she said before agreeing with the interviewer that Marciano’s claims were hard to believe. “Honestly, yeah, he’s a piece of s***.”

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3 Underrated Amazon Prime Video Movies to Watch This Weekend (May 23-25)

23 May 2025 at 10:30

For some people, Memorial Day weekend is a time to catch up on things they’ve put off doing. If you’re an Amazon Prime Video subscriber, there’s probably a movie in your queue that you never got around to watching.

If that sounds like you, or if you’re just looking for a good film to watch, you’ve come to the right place. Watch With Us is here to recommend three underrated movies to watch over the next three days.

Our selections include an action-comedy starring several silver screen legends, an intense thriller with Denzel Washington and a charming 2024 coming-of-age comedy.

‘Space Cowboys’ (2000)

Veteran astronauts William “Hawk” Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) and Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood) have hated each other for years, but when a rogue Soviet communications satellite carrying nuclear weapons starts plummeting to Earth, they are the only ones with the knowledge and experience to stop it. Along with a younger space crew, Hawk and Frank blast off into space to avert a catastrophe that could change the world forever.

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Despite its disaster movie plot, Space Cowboys is a surprisingly chill movie that blends macho action with good-natured humor. The cast, which includes Donald Sutherland, James Garner and a young Jon Hamm, is terrific, and the special effects still hold up today. Space Cowboys has fun with its premise without being too melodramatic (we’re looking at you, Deep Impact), and it’s fun watching these retired space cowboys suit up for one last trip to the stars.

Space Cowboys is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

‘John Q’ (2002)

Desperate times lead to desperate measures, and no one is more desperate than John Quincy Archibald (Denzel Washington). His young son needs a heart transplant, but John’s insurance won’t cover the $250,000 cost. Broke and with no options left, John decides to hold an ER hostage so his son can get the heart he needs to live. While John’s illegal act attracts the media’s attention (and sympathy), the cops treat John as a dangerous criminal who is a threat to others in the hospital. Will John succeed in saving his son’s life before he loses his own?

John Q was released more than 20 years ago, but it feels more resonant today than ever. John’s transformation into a criminal is due to a broken healthcare system that he feels left him no choice but to threaten others. John is no Luigi Mangione, though, since he only uses the threat of violence to try to get what he needs. Maybe that makes John Q less interesting than it could have been, but it’s still a compelling thriller with an intense performance from a never-better Washington.

John Q is on Amazon Prime Video right now.

‘Didi’ (2024)

It’s the summer after junior high ends and before high school begins, and 13-year-old Chris “Didi” Wang (Izaac Wang) is finding his place in life. He spends his days filming goofy videos to upload to YouTube and trying to impress a girl who makes him ashamed of his Asian American heritage. He also pushes away his well-meaning mother, Chungsing (Joan Chen), who doesn’t know that all her love and attention embarrasses him. With school fast approaching, can Didi figure out his identity and learn to appreciate his friends and family?

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Didi was one of 2024’s buried treasures, and that’s due to its sweet and simple coming-of-age story. It’s still uncommon for movies to focus on the Asian American experience, which is why Didi feels so fresh and different. As the titular character, Wang is what you’d expect a teenage boy to be like — funny, a little silly, exasperating and impossible. Chen is terrific as Didi’s mom, who has to deal with her own parenting issues while raising her son.

Didi is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

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Georgia O’Connor’s Loving Tributes to Her Husband Before Her Death

23 May 2025 at 10:24

When British pro boxer Georgia O’Connor died at age 25, she was less than two weeks removed from marrying her longtime partner Adriano Cardinali.

Cardinali was by O’Connor’s side throughout her battle with an undisclosed type of cancer, which doctors formally diagnosed earlier this year. Though not much is known about Cardinali’s private life, O’Connor shared plenty through her own social media accounts.

“If you have a man who loves you more than anything, who would burn the whole world down before he’d let it take you, hold onto him, because that kind of love is rare,” she wrote via Instagram, four days after revealing her diagnosis.

O’Connor added that Cardinali quit his job “without a second thought” to help her in her fight.

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“Whilst the doctors who neglected me are stuck in their ways, he’s out there driving across Europe, finding treatments they don’t even know exist,” she continued. “Researching day and night, chasing down every option, making sure I have every single chance to beat this.”

“I have never known love like this,” she said. “A love that doesn’t flinch, doesn’t break, doesn’t even hesitate. A love that says ‘we do this together, no matter what.’ No matter how dark the nights get, no matter how hard the days are, I have him, and he has me.”

In the months that followed her diagnosis, O’Connor continued to update her fans on her condition, revealing she suffered a miscarriage and that her cancer was incurable. But just one day after sharing the news of her miscarriage, she posted a touching tribute to Cardinali via Instagram for his birthday.

“You are not just my boyfriend but my truest and closest friend,” she wrote. “You are the funniest person I have ever met and make me laugh like crazy even when I don’t feel like smiling. We have been through so much together, things that no couple should go through but we always get through because nothing can ever break us 🤜🏼🤛🏼.”

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The two married on May 9 and O’Connor made the announcement three days later, posting a photo of each of their hands, rings fully visible.

Her promoter, Boxxer, announced O’Connor’s death 10 days later.

“We are heartbroken by the passing of Georgia O’Connor,” the organization said in a statement. “A true warrior inside and outside the ring, the boxing community has lost a talented, courageous and determined young woman far too soon.”

“Georgia was loved, respected and admired by her friends here at Boxxer,” the statement continued. “Our thoughts are with her loved ones at this difficult time.”

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

23 May 2025 at 16:22
A man pretending to drill into Gabe Newell’s head.
Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface.

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, the company behind Half-Life and DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike and preeminent PC game distribution platform Steam, has long toyed with the idea that your brain should be more connected to your PC. It began over a decade ago with in-house psychologists studying people’s biological responses to video games; Valve once considered earlobe monitors for its first VR headset. The company publicly explored the idea of brain-computer interfaces for gaming at GDC in 2019.

But Newell decided to spin off the idea. That same year, he quietly incorporated a new brain-computer interface startup, Starfish Neuroscience — which has now revealed plans to produce its very first brain chip later this year.

Starfish’s first blog post, spotted by Valve watcher Brad Lynch, makes it clear we’re not talking about a complete implant yet. This bit is the custom “electrophysiology” chip designed to record brain activity (like how Neuralink can “read your mind” so patients can interact with computers) and stimulate the brain (for disease therapy), but Starfish isn’t claiming it’s already built the systems to power it or the bits to stick it into a person’s head.

“We anticipate our first chips arriving in late 2025 and we are interested in finding collaborators for whom such a chip would open new and exciting avenues,” writes Starfish neuroengineer Nate Cermak (bolding theirs), suggesting that Starfish might wind up partnering with other companies for wireless power or even the final brain implant.

But the goal, writes Starfish, is a smaller and less invasive implant than the competition, one that can “enable simultaneous access to multiple brain regions” instead of just one site, and one that doesn’t require a battery. Using just 1.1 milliwatts during “normal recording,” Starfish says it can work with wireless power transmission instead.

Here’s the chip’s current spec sheet:

  • Low power: 1.1 mW total power consumption during normal recording 
  • Physically small: 2 x 4mm (0.3mm pitch BGA) 
  • Capable of both recording (spikes and LFP) & stimulation (biphasic pulses) 
  • 32 electrode sites, 16 simultaneous recording channels at 18.75kHz 
  • 1 current source for stimulating on arbitrary pairs of electrodes 
  • Onboard impedance monitoring and stim voltage transient measurement 
  • Digital onboard data processing and spike detection allows the device to operate via low-bandwidth wireless interfaces. 
  • Fabricated in TSMC 55nm process

Neuralink’s N1, for comparison, has 1,024 electrodes across its 64 brain-implanted threads, a chip that consumed around 6 milliwatts as of 2019, a battery that periodically needs wireless charging, and the full implant (again, not just the chip) is around 23mm wide and 8mm thick.

Starfish says it could be important to connect to multiple parts of the brain simultaneously to address issues like Parkinson’s disease. “there is increasing evidence that a number of neurological disorders involve circuit-level dysfunction, in which the interactions between brain regions may be misregulated,” Cermak writes.

In addition to multiple simultaneous brain implants, the company’s updated website says it’s working on a “precision hyperthermia device” to destroy tumors with targeted heat, and a brain-reading, robotically guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system for addressing neurological conditions like bipolar disorder and depression.

In case you’re wondering how any of this might make its way back to gaming, I’ll leave you with Valve’s talk from GDC 2019 about brain-computer interfaces.

Trump administration plans to overhaul National Security Council, weeks after Waltz’s departure

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are spearheading plans to overhaul the National Security Council and shift its main functions to other agencies like the State and Defense departments. 

The move is the latest effort to slim down a federal agency, and comes weeks after Trump announced former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz would depart his post at the White House overseeing the agency. Trump announced the same day Waltz was nominated to serve as United Nations ambassador. 

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The plans to upend the agency would include whittling down the size of the National Security Council, which the Trump White House believes is full of long-term, bureaucratic staffers who don’t align with Trump’s agenda. 

Additionally, the restructuring will move Andy Barker, national security advisor for Vice President JD Vance, and Robert Gabriel, assistant to the president for policy, into roles serving as deputy national security advisors. 

Axios was the first to report the Trump administration’s restructuring plans. A White House official confirmed Axios’ reporting to Fox News Digital. 

A White House official involved in the planning said that Trump and Rubio are driving the change in an attempt to target Washington’s so-called "Deep State." 

"The NSC is the ultimate Deep State. It's Marco vs. the Deep State. We're gutting the Deep State," a White House official told Axios. 

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The National Security Council is housed within the White House and provides the president with guidance on national security, military, and foreign affairs matters. 

Waltz’s departure from the agency followed his involvement—alongside other administration officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—in the Signal chat controversy over strike plans against the Houthis in March.

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Since Waltz’s departure earlier this month, Rubio has taken on the role of national security advisor. That’s in addition to leading the State Department, serving as acting archivist, and serving as acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which the administration is aiming to dismantle this year. 

Fox News Digital was the first to report that the State Department planned to absorb the remaining operations and programs USAID runs so it would no longer function as an independent agency. The move requires cutting thousands of staff members in an attempt to bolster the efficiency of the existing, "life-saving" foreign assistance programs, according to a State Department memo Fox News Digital obtained. 

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report. 

Google chatbot slammed for ‘anti-American’ claims about ‘White Memorial Day’

Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot is being slammed for "anti-American" claims about the supposed White supremacist origins of Memorial Day.

The Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America project, a conservative media watchdog, is calling out Google for alleged bias coded into its AI chatbot "Gemini" after the group found the bot said that Memorial Day is controversial for a range of reasons, including problems with "inclusivity and representation" from the Jim Crow era.

MRC said it asked Gemini the question "Is Memorial Day controversial?" May 16. 

According to MRC, the Google-run chatbot responded, "Yes, Memorial Day is a holiday that carries a degree of controversy, stemming from several factors."

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Among the reasons listed for the supposed controversy was a bullet point titled, "White Memorial Day," which claimed "historically, especially during the Jim Crow era, Memorial Day observances in many communities became predominantly ‘white,’ overlooking the contributions and sacrifices of Black service members. This historical exclusion remains a sensitive point."

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MRC also said that Gemini claimed Memorial Day is "often intertwined with national identity and patriotism," which the chatbot asserted "can be complex and controversial for individuals with differing perspectives on American history and foreign policy."

The group also said Gemini claimed another problem with Memorial Day is the "glorification of War," saying "some argue that the focus on military sacrifice can inadvertently glorify war, rather than solely honoring the fallen and reflecting on the cost of conflict."

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Fox News Digital asked Gemini the same question Friday and was given the answer that while "the primary purpose of Memorial Day is to honor all U.S. military personnel who died while serving," the history of the holiday "does contain elements that can be viewed through the lens of race."

Among the reasons for the controversy Gemini gave to Fox News Digital were "the continued observance of separate Confederate Memorial Days in some Southern states, honoring those who fought to preserve slavery, [which] is seen by many as racially insensitive and a painful reminder of a divisive past."

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Gemini told Fox News Digital that "while the act of honoring fallen service members is not inherently racist, the historical context, the selective narratives and the existence of Confederate observances mean that the history and observance of Memorial Day have been intertwined with racial issues."

Google did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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