He was a reality-star villain — but Spencer Pratt – Latest News
Last week Joe Rogan welcomed Spencer Pratt to his podcast with a endorsement.
“What’s going on … Mr. Mayor,” he mentioned with a smile.
In one other world, I’d chortle on the political anointment of a crystals-obsessed reality-show villain who as soon as shared the nickname “Speidi” along with his plastic-surgery-loving spouse, Heidi. But in 2026, I discover myself making a case for him.
If I lived in Los Angeles, Pratt would have my vote. Even if he’s the man who ruled the mid-aughts gossip industry by being a shameless agitator on an MTV show.
Spencer Pratt was a visitor on Joe Rogan’s podcast final week. And although Rogan moved to Texas and can’t vote for Pratt, he endorsed him within the mayoral race. Youtube/PowerfulJRE
Pratt has long copped to a want for fame. He now admits his antics on “The Hills” was all an act to feed his unquenchable thirst for consideration — and money.
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Politics, although? He insisted to Rogan that it was by no means within the playing cards. But in 2025, Pratt’s whole life burned to the ground within the Palisades fire. He misplaced his home, as did his mother and father and so many others.
From the ashes has risen a man on a mission. Conveniently, that man has a giant social media platform and a very large mouth.
During his actuality tv heyday, Spencer Pratt turned a devotee of therapeutic crystals and has estimated he’s spent $1 million on them. MTV Reality/YouTube
He turned the unlikely face of the fires, demanding accountability for the gross incompetence of LA’s management. On X, he chronicled the fecklessness of Mayor Karen Bass, a lot ineffective purple tape and the star-studded Fire Aid live performance which raised $100 million — a lot of it shoveled to NGOs quite than victims.
But Pratt mentioned he turned sick of being simply a “yapper.” In January, the 42-year-old, a registered Republican, entered the mayoral race, saying, “Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, and I’m done waiting for someone to take real action.”
On Rogan he taunted the creatures who’ve been parked in politics for many years.
In the late aughts, MTV’s “The Hills” launched Spencer Pratt (above, second from proper with spouse Heidi) into a family identify as the largest villain in actuality tv.
“I’m going to go into your headquarters, and just take your job and remove all these toxic entities that are destroying our way of life in los Angeles,” he mentioned.
Now he finds himself operating towards incumbent Bass. Or as he calls the girl who was in Ghana as the town burned, Karen “Basura” — aka, Spanish for rubbish.
He’s additionally taken intention at his rival Nithya Raman, a Democract City Councilwoman who has been endorsed in different races by the DSA.
“What’s she going to change? She’s had six years,” he mentioned of Raman. “The best part is she’s had six years to not say any of these problems until she’s running for mayor.”
In January, Spencer Pratt marked the one-year anniversary of the Palisades and Eaton fires that decimated Los Angeles by asserting he was operating for mayor. BACKGRID
Speaking with Rogan, Pratt laid out the case for pragmatic governing: Empower the police and fire departments, dismantle the homeless industrial advanced. Turn it a place of law and order, as a result of when you implement guidelines criminals and drug addicts go elsewhere.
He described the bottomless pit of money being sunk into homelessness, a drawback that has solely grown in LA.
He desires to shift from the faux-compassion model that coddles mentally ailing drug customers, or “zombies” as he says, and get them actual remedy.
“My wife was ready to move because every morning … across the street [from] my son’s preschool, there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids at 7:45 in the morning,” he recounted.
Spencer Pratt is operating towards Karen Bass — or, as he calls her, Karen “Basura” (Spanish for rubbish). Getty Images
If he has a social agenda, he doesn’t actually say — which can also be refreshing. Pratt speaks not like a politician, but a common one that has come to repair a drawback.
It’s efficient. Instead of growing paperwork, he desires to cut it away just like the most cancers that it’s.
He additionally desires to revive the industry of Hollywood and make it simpler to movie there.
Urging a return to the fundamentals is just not an audacious proposal. It’s solely audacious that it’s the man from “The Hills” doing it.
Spencer Pratt and spouse Heidi Montag attended the “They Let Us Burn” rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the Palisades fire. BACKGRID
And you understand what? I’m satisfied that being a actuality tv villain is definitely improbable coaching for public workplace.
“Spencer actually told me, from the beginning, that he wanted to be the most hated person on the planet,” his best pal Brody Jenner informed Esquire in 2022. “And he did it. He really is a master of manifestation.”
Pratt, who as soon as thrived on being a heel, is becoming a member of the nice guys. Why not?
He modified actuality tv. Maybe he can change politics — and Los Angeles, too.
