{"id":10,"date":"2026-05-26T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:11:26","slug":"spencer-pratt-is-the-same-as-he-ever-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt Is the Same as He Ever Was"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/span>t is the morning of Jan. 7, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades and the Santa Ana winds are blowing hot from the north. A man wakes up and begins his morning routine. He slaps on a T-shirt with his wife\u2019s face on it and starts the espresso machine. The nanny heads out with the kids. He cues up his morning song, Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cLook What You Made Me Do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe world moves on, another day another drama, drama<\/em><\/p>\n

\nBut not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma<\/em><\/p>\n

\nAnd then the world moves on, but one thing\u2019s for sure<\/em><\/p>\n

\nMaybe I got mine, but you\u2019ll all get yours<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tThis is all perfectly normal because we are in Los Angeles, California. The man\u2019s next actions are even consistent with a certain West Side of L.A. ethos. The nanny runs into the house and reports there is fire in the hills. The man hikes up a trail to see for himself. He films his reactions for his TikTok. Bite-size narration clips chronicle a day that begins with inanity and ends in apocalypse.<\/p>\n

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\nWell, this isn\u2019t looking good\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\nFirst time I\u2019ve seen the flames coming over the hills\u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\nOK, it\u2019s getting a little closer\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\nIt\u2019s all fun and games having 1,000 crystals until you\u2019re gonna try to pack them all, because fire is coming around the corner\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\nYikes. Yikes. Yikes\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\nWe have to get out of here\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\nI\u2019m watching my house burn down on our security cameras\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tThe man is Spencer Pratt, once voted the second-worst celebrity in American history after O.J. Simpson. In the past, Pratt lost his shit on reality shows, beginning with MTV\u2019s The Hills<\/em>. The rage was always ridiculous because the stakes were so low. My favorite freakout was when he went cuckoo in the Costa Rican jungle after a wrestler ripped off the labels of his wife\u2019s dry shampoo bottles on the show I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026Get Me Out of Here!<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, he is losing his shit over something that matters: Mayor Karen Bass\u2019 handling of the Palisades fires that burned down his and his parents\u2019 houses. He has expanded his scope to the city\u2019s homeless encampments, talking of moms pushing strollers past naked humans shitting in the streets and testing fentanyl on their dogs, leading Pratt to tweet, \u201cI have the only endorsement I need. Moms and animal lovers who want to feel safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tPratt is a quintessential American. His entire life has been fueled by an unfathomable level of self-confidence, despite a data set that suggests he may not be good at anything. No one should have been surprised when he saw only one solution to L.A.\u2019s problems: Elect Spencer Pratt mayor. The fact that he is being taken seriously and, I mean this with all sincerity, won<\/em> a May 6 mayoral debate tells us all we need to know about L.A., California, and America in the 2020s. He has attracted the support of Porsche Cayenne moms, aging music producers, and the strangely influential L.A. contrarian liberal crowd who, to paraphrase Phil Ochs, are 10 degrees left of center in good times, 10 degrees to the right of center if they feel unsafe while walking their dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLos Angeles now has a choice prophesied by Pratt decades ago on The Hills<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s my way or the lame way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNever have we ever needed to be lamer.<\/p>\n

\n\tWE MET PRATT ON The Hills<\/em>, where he and Heidi Montag, the woman on his T-shirt, reigned as king and queen of a Los Angeles clich\u00e9 that was even shallower than actual Los Angeles. You remember the highlights. Spencer gives the same flowers to two different girls. Spencer throws Heidi out of his car and peels away. Spencer and Heidi become one: Speidi. Spencer leaks rumors of a sex tape involving cast mate Lauren Conrad to the gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Conrad unleashes holy hell on Heidi who, in fairness, had a plausible alibi because she was getting both a nose job and breast augmentation when the story broke. Still, Lauren confronts Heidi with one of reality television\u2019s immortal lines:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt wanted things both ways. He has repeatedly complained about being manipulated on The Hills<\/em> and victimized by \u201cFrankenbiting\u201d \u2014 a reality-show editing technique where dialogue is lifted from a different conversation \u2014 into saying things he didn\u2019t say. Alas, in The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain<\/em>, his recent memoir, he brags about torquing the Pratt brand for fun and profit. Reading his memoir is a fun-house ride through his personal mythmaking. (He writes that complications during delivery led relieved doctors to lift him into the air \u201clike Simba in The Lion King.<\/em>\u201d)He remembers being obsessed with attention early in his life, wondering whether he still existed when people stopped looking at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe young Pratt is rich and charming \u2014 his dad is a dentist \u2014 but not nearly as rich as his classmates at the ultra-posh Crossroads School in Santa Monica. He creates his first break by bluffing his way into Fonzie\u2019s house, a.k.a. Henry Winkler, heading upstairs into his son Max\u2019s bedroom and absconding with snaps of a then-teenaged Mary-Kate Olsen partying down like a normal high schooler. Pratt then sold the pics to the tabloid Us Weekly<\/em> for $50,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThese character traits served him well on the rise, but then came the fall, after The Hills<\/em> was canceled. And holy shit, what a fall. Speidi spent $2 million on Heidi\u2019s debut album, Superficial<\/em>. According to Pratt, it arrived in January 2010 with one significant problem: They forgot about it. After spending years and millions manufacturing Heidi into a pop star, they didn\u2019t do any promotion. The album sold 672 copies its first week.<\/p>\n

\n\tMontag was devastated. She whispered a question to her man-child.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFour years and two million dollars, and we just\u2026 spaced?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe couple\u2019s spending habits were pure Pompeii if the Roman city had disappeared because of deficit spending and not a volcano. Half a million dollars dropped on Birkin bags. Three-hundred thousand spent on ammunition. An attempt to buy a jungle compound using gold in a backpack ended badly. Their $75,000-a-month Malibu compound was trashed by a Judas-like security guard who stole their Japanese toilets.<\/strong> None of it mattered, because Pratt believed the world was about to end in a Mayan apocalypse. He theorized that an associate might have been microdosing the couple with LSD, leading Heidi to believe he was levitating one night.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then there were the crystals. So many crystals. At first, Pratt bought them because they were beautiful. He talked of building his own \u201cgemstone cathedral.\u201d He knew of their healing power. One time, Heidi was in excruciating pain after undergoing a half-dozen plastic surgery procedures in a single day. She nearly died when she slipped into what Pratt describes as a Demerol overdose and later had a brutally revealing conversation with her mother.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSounds to me like you want to look like Barbie,\u201d her mother said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI do want to look like Barbie,\u201d Heidi answered.<\/p>\n

\n\tPainkillers were not helping, so Pratt bought Heidi a $15,000 piece of sugilite. According to Pratt, she slept through the night for the first time afterward. Soon they were broke and living with his parents. There were other adventures. In 2009, Pratt and Heidi drifted into the Alex Jones ecosystem, calling into his show like starstruck tourists. Pratt enthusiastically rattled off his favorite Jones documentaries: Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement, The Obama Deception, Masters of Terror, 9\/11: The Road to Tyranny, The Matrix of Evil, and the Police State<\/em> trilogy. He then mentioned that he thought climate change was nonsense.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen Pratt grew up, in a way. In the 2010s, Speidi still did the occasional TV show, but Pratt realized that his next move was to be \u201creal,\u201d and for him that meant shooting feel-good social-media videos about hummingbirds, crystals, and being a daddy. The young family moved into a house in the Palisades up the hill from his childhood home. At sunrise, Pratt would stand outside in sweats, filming himself, as hummingbirds swarmed around his blond head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe thirst for fame never died. \u201cI want a hit show so fucking bad<\/em>,\u201d shouts Pratt in a poignant 2022 Esquire<\/em> profile. At that moment, a reboot of The Hills<\/em> had been recently canceled, and Pratt was trying to get a cannabis reality show off the ground. Still, the writer recounts that Pratt dreams of a higher calling, to \u201ccreate one successful reality TV format and then he can replicate it ad nauseum<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen the fires came.<\/p>\n

\n\tIT ALL STARTED WITH the day-of-fire TikTok and Instagram posts. Pratt morphs before our eyes from semi-lovable L.A. doofus into a man grieving as his world turns to embers. He emerged as the voice of the affluently dispossessed in the aftermath, egged on, according to Pratt, by a TV reporter who confided he had two weeks to get his message across before the media moved on to the next disaster.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel like a ghost,\u201d Pratt said on Good Morning America<\/em> as he lamented how he had lost all his family photos from the pre-iPhone age. He kept posting. His TikTok views skyrocketed. \u201cIf we were rich, I wouldn\u2019t be on an app,\u201d Pratt told People<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019d be buying a new house and starting to order things.\u201d Speidi then managed the impossible, turning the ultimate feel-bad story into a feel-good miracle. Pratt mentioned that if people wanted to help, well, Montag\u2019s Superficial<\/em> was being re-released and maybe they could download it. The album climbed to Number One on the Apple Music charts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut mostly there was rage. Pratt went after Bass with fury, mocking the mayor for being out of the country during the fires and for leaving the nearby Santa Ynez reservoir empty. He ripped her over fire resources, claiming he called the LAFD and asked for one truck to be sent to his neighborhood but was told none were available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSpencer Pratt was no longer a celeb fire victim, but Joe Taxpayer \u2014 OK, with 2 million Instagram followers \u2014 let down by a dysfunctional government. His anger was no longer about dry-shampoo labels, but families displaced and neighborhoods erased. Spencer Pratt from The Hills<\/em> was gone and replaced by righteously pissed-off Spencer Pratt starring in a reboot of 1993\u2019s Falling Down<\/em>, a cinematic account of a frustrated white man in an earlier L.A. dystopia.<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt expanded his targets. Shortly after the fire, a star-studded assortment of musicians ranging from Billie Eilish to Stevie Nicks performed two FireAid concerts that raised $100 million for victims. It quickly became a Republican talking point that the money had disappeared into a mysterious tangle of NGOs, long a villainous concept in Trumpian circles.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cLet me tell you my first experience with NGOs,\u201d Pratt told the All-In<\/em> podcast. \u201cAfter the Palisades fire, FireAid, $100 million raised. Every single person I talked to is messaging me, \u2018No one\u2019s getting this money. No one\u2019s seeing a dollar.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fact that FireAid funneled money to reputable charities and food banks was lost in the wash. Still, it became part of Pratt\u2019s populist rhetoric. No one in government or associated with government can be trusted, everyone is on the take. He centered on L.A.\u2019s homeless crisis. He describes the unfortunate as \u201czombies\u201d in the perfectly pitched anger of an Angeleno just trying to get through the day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt can\u2019t even be called Skid Row anymore. It\u2019s called Los Angeles,\u201d Pratt told Joe Rogan. \u201cBefore my house burned down in the Palisades, my wife was ready to move, because every morning in front of Palisades Elementary there was a lady cleaning her private parts in front of kids at 7:45 in the morning. \u2026 She\u2019d go around the corner, and she\u2019d go number two in front of Joe\u2019s Barber Shop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t(Earlier, I said Pratt\u2019s life experiences suggested he wasn\u2019t good at anything. I misspoke. His entire life has made him fluent in soundbite outrage.)<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the first anniversary of the Palisades fire, Pratt still wore the traditional colors of the villain, sporting a black cap that read \u201cLet Us Burn,\u201d sunglasses, and a black T-shirt as he spoke to an estimated crowd of 1,000 people just off Sunset Boulevard in the Palisades.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m here today to remember the one-year anniversary of the worst day of my life,\u201d said Pratt in an unsteady voice. \u201cOn January 7, 2025, Heidi and I lost our home. We lost every material possession we owned. My parents lost their home, too, and with it decades of memories made inside those walls.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis voice broke and he shook his hands violently to keep it together. For a few minutes, he sounded less like a reality-television character and more like a man who had watched his hometown die in real time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI used to think my taxpayer dollars funded a functional city,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cBut I was completely naive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt mentioned that all he had been doing for the past year was gorging on burritos and searching for who was responsible. But he couldn\u2019t stick to the truth for the full six minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe blamed \u201cDEI\u201d for failures in firefighting tactics. No evidence. He claimed, again, that NGOs, nonprofits, and unions were \u201crunning this town\u201d and alleged that \u201c100 million in fire-aid money is missing.\u201d No evidence. He suggested that park ranger incompetence caused the disaster. No evidence. His cap literally suggested Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom let the city burn on purpose. No evidence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tKnock twice if you\u2019ve heard this one before.<\/p>\n

\n\tAT FIRST, SPENCER PRATT\u2019S campaign sounded like something you read about in the trades, a fading star scores a pilot that is ultimately not picked up for a 13-episode series order. Then everyone realized that Karen Bass was running for re-election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCities fail all the time during disasters, but Bass\u2019 problem was that afterward she often appeared more focused on shifting blame than assuming responsibility.\u00a0I know many Angelenos who see Bass\u2019 belief that her fire performance entitled her to a second term as, well, insane. Sure, there were a half-dozen candidates, some smart and well-intentioned, but Bass has always been the frontrunner, scooping up labor support and endorsements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHer only viable opponent seemed to be L.A. council member Nithyah Raman, a progressive good-government type who had been elected in 2020 after a relentless door-to-door campaign with a platform that stressed getting L.A.\u2019s homeless crisis under control.<\/strong> Alas, Raman\u2019s squeaky-clean image took a hit in February when, two weeks after endorsing Bass for re-election, she announced her own candidacy on deadline day.<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt was polling in third, so he qualified along with Bass and Raman for a May 6 televised debate at the Skirball Center. The conventional wisdom was that Pratt would fall on his face, his soul disappearing in a cloud of policy gibberish. It did not happen. Apparently, the world forgot that Pratt has been choreographing seemingly spontaneous zingers for two decades.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe debate started with Bass passing the blame for the city\u2019s flawed fire response onto Fire Chief Kristin Crowley sending 1,000 firefighters home early that day. Not exactly Harry Truman saying the buck stops here. The mayor said planes couldn\u2019t do water drops because the gusting winds made the situation unsafe. Most experts agree with her, but that didn\u2019t stop Pratt. He disputed her wind claims.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s an incredible liar. Everyone on their phones, Google it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt\u2019s jibe was pure Trump. It was factually inaccurate but seemed emotionally true, a phrase that described Pratt\u2019s entire performance. While Bass and Raman argued over the efficacy of needle-exchange programs, Pratt got to the point.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo needles and pipes for drug addicts on the street. Ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRaman is a smart policy wonk. Unfortunately, she believed an L.A. televised debate in 2026 with a reality star was going to be Lincoln-Douglas. She watched with amazement as the moderator thanked Pratt for \u201cdirecting traffic\u201d after he suggested Bass had not been heard on an issue. Raman lost her cool. In the June primary, a candidate only wins if they score over 50 percent of the vote, otherwise there is a November runoff between the top two candidates. She suggested there were shenanigans occurring.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI want to just say to everybody who\u2019s watching today, you\u2019re going to watch today as Mayor Bass and Spencer Pratt attacked me because they want to run against each other in the general election. Each of them thinks that running against each other is what\u2019s going to help them win\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis was a plausible theory, but it set up Pratt for the kill shot.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMayor Bass and I are definitely not working together,\u201d said Pratt with anger. He motioned toward the mayor. \u201cI blame this person for burning my house and my parents\u2019 house and my town and all my neighbors down. I am not working with Mayor Bass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt dodged and weaved when pressed to give specific policy proposals. The moderator asked Pratt how he would manage the city\u2019s $14 billion budget. Left unsaid was the implication that Pratt has shown less success holding on to a dollar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe responded the right way. He lied his ass off.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, thankfully, I have common sense and I am humble,\u201d said Pratt. \u201cI have humility. I\u2019m going to surround myself with the smartest people in the world. \u2026 My job is to be, as crazy as this will sound, I\u2019m the adult in the room here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe debate ended a few minutes later with Bass and Raman learning something that Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz learned in 2016: Never debate a bullshit artist.<\/p>\n

\n\tADMITTEDLY, THE BULLSHIT artist makes great ads. Pratt has a banger where he speaks to camera outside the palatial homes of Bass and Raman. (Bass\u2019 is the official mayoral residency).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is where Mayor Bass lives,\u201d says Pratt in a suit without a tie. \u201cYou notice something? Or here, where Nithya Raman\u2019s $3 million mansion sits?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video cuts to dystopian scenes of homeless encampments and desolate streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey don\u2019t have to live in the mess they created where you live.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNow we are back in the Palisades. Pratt stands outside a silver trailer on his burned-out property.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is where I live. They let my home burn down. I know what the consequences of failed leadership are. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running for mayor, for my sons and the rest of us Angelenos that want to stop these corrupt politicians from destroying our city. We are going to get the golden age of Los Angeles back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA follow-up ad features the Pratt family returning to the trailer for the first time (a camera crew is coincidentally present). Heidi cries, a son finds his favorite shovel in the rubble while Spencer comforts them.\u00a0Sure, the ads are overwrought and some of their power is diffused by the fact that someone has spray-painted in all caps \u201cHeidiland\u201d behind the trailer, but the pain is so visceral that it twists even a cynic\u2019s heart into a knot.<\/p>\n

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\n\tConveniently, Pratt\u2019s ad blitz has been paired with theoretically unsanctioned AI ads that present Pratt as Batman dropping into the city where he has a quick conversation with Joe Rogan (?!) before he beats up ICE agents \u2014 wait, no, they are DSA terrorists who are just dressed like ICE agents. Pratt cleans up the streets that somehow are in L.A. but also feature Washington, D.C.\u2019s Capitol Hill looming behind them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the most palatable of Pratt\u2019s online ads that his campaign did not create, but that Pratt reposts. Another AI spot features Bass as the Joker, Kamala Harris swigging vodka, and Gavin Newsom saying he can\u2019t help the desperate Cali mom straight out of a Bikram yoga ad, but if she was transgender and an immigrant, he could get her a \u201cfree pussy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe two ad campaigns show the duality of the Pratt machine. Over here, he is a simple man who has lost everything. Over there, he is the righteous asshole calling Karen Bass Karen Basura in a cartoonish Spanish accent (\u201cbasura\u201d is Spanish for trash).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut this is a Spencer Pratt production, so the good times could not last. The media stopped treating him as a harmless nut and victim and more like an actual candidate. The Alex Jones conversation resurfaced. The fact that he is a registered Republican who voted for Trump resurfaced, an admission that is less popular in L.A. than commuting from Westwood to Eagle Rock on a Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThen a trusted ally turned on him. In his memoir, Pratt recounts receiving a call from a media major domo when Speidi was contemplating leaving the Costa Rican jungle after the dry-shampoo incident.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSpencer, this is AMAZING! You need to get back on that fucking show, ASAP! \u2026 You\u2019re trending worldwide! This is massive!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut we have to poop in a hole.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWho cares? GET BACK IN THE JUNGLE!\u201d Do you hear me? Go back in there and lose your goddamn minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe man was TMZ head Harvey Levin. Their cozy historical relationship made Levin\u2019s next move diabolically brutal. After the fire, Speidi and kids had relocated to his parents\u2019 place in Santa Barbara, leading some reporters to ask if Pratt was still a Los Angeles citizen and eligible to run for mayor. Pratt answered by ingeniously moving the Airstream trailer onto his property. Pratt suggested \u2014 nay, said \u2014 in his ads that he was living in the trailer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCue the deluge. Levin and TMZ reported after the debate that Pratt and family were living in the thousand-bucks-a-night Hotel Bel-Air. (It was not clear who was paying for the hotel.)\u00a0Pratt angrily responded in a follow-up interview with TMZ. Some excerpts:<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThat is where I live, period. I don\u2019t need to sleep there every night. I don\u2019t need to go number two on that toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides, Pratt maintained, his life was in danger from unnamed forces that would stop at nothing to end his campaign<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m at a hotel because these psychopaths are messaging me every day, they\u2019re going to kill me. \u2026 You can literally snipe me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt seemed on the verge of a stroke as he unpersuasively argued that saying \u201cI live here\u201d in an ad didn\u2019t mean he actually lived there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThen Spencer did a very Spencer thing. His campaign cut an ad spoofing himself as the new \u201cFresh Prince of Bel-Air\u201d to the tune of the show\u2019s theme song.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn West Los Angeles, Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days,\u201d Pratt raps. \u201cFeeding humming birds, relaxing all cool, avoiding all the bums outside of the school \/ When a couple politicians, who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood \/ I got in one little fire and my mom got scared, and she said you are moving in with Harvey Levin in Bel Air.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEveryone laughed. Spencer Pratt was forgiven. Again.<\/p>\n

\n\tTMZ \u2014 apparently the Woodward and Bernstein of this campaign \u2014 has also reported that Pratt has signed a deal to film a reality show if he is elected mayor (Pratt denies this).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe hit show that Pratt wants so \u201cfucking bad\u201d could be one election victory away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019m sure 24\/7 cameras would not impact how he runs the city at all.<\/p>\n

\n\tI NO LONGER LIVE in Los Angeles, but it is the city I love the most. I returned to cover the fires and wept for friends and sources who lost everything. The same friends protested ICE last summer, getting tear gassed for their troubles. They tell me that Spencer Pratt can\u2019t win. (A recent poll shows Pratt passing Raman and polling at 22 percent, but trailing Bass by 14 points in a head-to-head race.) They say his message is all doomsday babble. OK, Pratt did mention on the All-In<\/em> podcast that he has a billionaire supporter willing to donate $500 million to be the \u201cfun czar\u201d and help ramp up L.A.\u2019s entertainment scene. You will not be shocked to learn Pratt said the donor\u2019s name could not be released.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMy friends say Trump\u2019s remarks about Pratt \u2014 \u201cI\u2019d like to see him do well. \u2026 I heard he\u2019s a big MAGA person\u201d \u2014 will not help his cause.\u00a0And, besides, what is this \u201cGolden Age\u201d that Pratt keeps talking about? Rodney King? The Watts riots? L.A. has always been a magical, surreal, and completely fucked-up place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThankfully, there is a safety net. Los Angeles has a weak-mayor system where Pratt would have little power to make unilateral decisions even if he was elected. Los Angeles County is geographically larger than Delaware and the County Board of Supervisors controls much of the area\u2019s budget. Much of the rest is controlled by Democrats in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the fact that the city is even having this conversation is depressing. L.A. finds itself in a local spinoff of our nation\u2019s endless reality show: Choose between an erratic shit-stirrer and an apparatchik more likely to make beep-bop-boop robot noises than show authentic empathy.<\/p>\n

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