When did Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday split? Insider claims 2023 breakup predates public confirmation

Linda Holliday, a TV personality and philanthropist, and Bill Belichick's relationship was quietly reaching its end a long time before the announcement was made public. PEOPLE in an exclusive report learned that the couple ended their 16-year relationship in September 2022, a full year before the news broke. The separation was formally announced in September 2023.

PEOPLE officially published news regarding the secret split of Belichick, 72 years old, and Holliday, 62 years old at the time, in September 2023, after confirmation from an exclusive source.

According to the exclusive source on PEOPLE, the couple had "been pretty separate for a while" and that there had been problems in their relationship for a long time.

The split between Bill Belichick and Linda Holliday, explained

Bill Belichick, the head coach of the Patriots, and Linda Holliday first met in 2007, a year after he divorced Debby Clarke. After switching from being a radiography specialist to a television sports reporter, Holliday became a regular in Boston's social and humanitarian circles, along with Belichick. Holliday went to Vanderbilt University for school.

For the next fifteen years, the two helped each other with their career and personal lives and worked together on humanitarian causes. The Bill Belichick Foundation was well-known for these endeavors. They had a beloved dog called Nike, who even had an Instagram account. Holliday regularly went to Patriots games and sat proudly next to Belichick's kids.

A source close to the ex-couple informed Natasha Dye of PEOPLE that Belichick and Holliday's relationship was very well over by September 2022. Holliday remained in their joint houses to avoid "sudden displacement" and public shame. Belichick, on the other hand, discreetly went to a motel near Gillette Stadium.

They broke up by September 2022; however, the source said that "many thought that Bill had cheated on Linda in 2022 and 2023". Holliday maintained the relationship's facade on social media until a year later, when the split was confirmed to the public.

Bill Belichick began dating Jordon Hudson, a former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University who is now a publicist, only a few months after the news broke. They initially appeared together in public in January 2023; however, they met on a flight in 2021.

Hudson has been acting as his publicist, and the pair has been spotted and been on the news together a few times, especially as Belichick started coaching at UNC. Belichick also accompanied Hudson as they travelled to Maine to help her campaign for Miss Maine USA. They have been on the news together,

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PEOPLE also added that Holliday is happy living in Jupiter, Florida, and her role at the Bill Belichick Foundation has become complicated after the split.

Fans didn't learn about the breakup until late 2023, but insiders indicate the couple had broken up a year earlier, concluding a long romance with class and privacy.

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