He was a reality-star villain but crystals-loving Spencer Pratt would have my vote if I lived in LA
Last week Joe Rogan welcomed Spencer Pratt to his podcast with a endorsement.“What’s going on … Mr.Mayor,” he said with a smile.In another world, I’d laugh at the political anointment of a crystals-obsessed reality-show villain who once shared the nickname “Speidi” with his plastic-surgery-loving wife, Heidi.
But in 2026, I find myself making a case for him.If I lived in Los Angeles, Pratt would have my vote.Even if he is the guy who ruled the mid-aughts gossip industry by being a shameless agitator on an MTV show.
Pratt has long copped to a desire for fame.He now admits his antics on “The Hills” was all an act to feed his unquenchable thirst for attention — and money.
Politics, though? He insisted to Rogan that it was never in the cards.But in 2025, Pratt’s entire life burned to the ground in the Palisades fire.
He lost his home, as did his parents and so many others.From the ashes has risen a man on a mission.Conveniently, that man has a large social media platform and a very big mouth.He became the unlikely face of the fires, demanding accountability for the gross incompetence of LA’s leadership.
On X, he chronicled the fecklessness of Mayor Karen Bass, so much useless red tape and the star-studded Fire Aid concert which raised $100 million — much of it shoveled to NGOs rather than victims.But Pratt said he became sick of being just 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 have been parked in politics for decades.“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 said.Now he finds himself running against incumbent Bass.Or as he calls the woman who was in Ghana as the city burned, Karen “Basura” — aka, ...