Spencer Pratt turned down a celebrity endorsement on the LA mayoral campaign trail
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Former television personality turned Los Angeles mayor Spencer Pratt said he doesn’t want celebrity endorsements during an appearance Thursday on “Gutfeld!”
“Actually, I don’t want celebrities to come out and praise me,” he said. “I don’t want anyone to approve of me except mothers and animal lovers in LA. That’s my whole vote.”
“I’m happy when no celebrity praises me. Actually, I like it when celebrities attack me because I’m like I’m doing very well.”
Pratt’s comments come as her campaign is bringing in millions of dollars, surpassing the campaigns of her rivals, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and incumbent Nithya Raman.
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TV personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt visited “Fox & Friends” at the Fox News Channel Studios on Jan. 28, 2026, New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Dennis Quaid, Paris Hilton, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Katharine McPhee, David Foster and others are some of the celebrities who support the hope of the mayor. Pratt also claimed that Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx privately endorsed him, but this alleged endorsement was never made public. Actor Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars director JJ Abrams are among those who have thrown money behind Bass.
Still, Pratt told “Gutfeld!” he does not consider celebrity endorsements to be very important to him.
“This is my favorite thing about the internet. They’re like, it’s big on the internet, but is it big on the streets? Yeah, the people I’m with are the people who have to go through drug dens naked and into water to get their $20 matcha,” he said. “These are the people who operate on mothers in Los Angeles who have to use their carts next to fentanyl, needles, and naked drug addict zombies with machetes who might amputate.”
Recent polls show Bass with 26 percent of likely voters, Raman with 25 percent and Pratt with 22 percent, according to a UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll.
Pratt, who considers himself a Republican, has gained traction thanks to his vicious, viral campaign ads targeting his opponents.
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Despite leaning to the right in the deep blue California city of LA, Pratt told host Greg Gutfeld that “all” of his supporters are Democrats and said his campaign is based on “common sense.”
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman talks with Mayor Karen Bass at Hazeltine Park in Sherman Oaks on Feb. 10, 2024, before the campaign event. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“My campaign now, the way I identify, apart from being a good American, is the one who ‘looks around’,” said the former television host.
“You look around and see with your own eyes what I’m saying, and it’s true. And that’s why I’m going to win, because my opponents are just lying, and they’ve been together for 10 years to create everything they look around and see. So I can say, this is no more.”
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Pratt is running a campaign against LA’s Democratic leadership, regularly criticizing city officials like Bass and Raman for their handling of the 2025 fires and the city’s homelessness crisis.
Pratt announced that he will run for office in January with the goal of unseating Mayor Bass, citing what he considers a failure of leadership in America’s second largest city.
A homeless man walks along Los Angeles Skid Row Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, after Mayor Karen Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness as her first act in office. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News)
Pratt continued to speak to Angelenos who voted for Bass, despite allegations that he mishandled the wildfire.
“Yes, there are indeed crazy people. Their houses didn’t burn, but they could have been saved by the US Forest Service, who came in to save the day, Chief Bobby Garcia on the 8th,” he said. “These people have convinced themselves that the Palisades burned because of climate change, and these imaginary winds of hurricanes that didn’t exist,” he said. That was it. It wasn’t that Mayor Bass was drinking in Ghana and he paid back the firefighters with 17 million.’
Winds typically reached 40 mph in Los Angeles during the January 2025 fires, with maximum gusts measured at 86 mph, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
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Pratt said he was living in a trailer after his $3.8 million Pacific Palisades home caught fire, but reports later revealed he was staying at the Bel-Air Hotel.
Pratt also said the homeless problem in Los Angeles is like a “horror movie” and advocated for treatment-oriented solutions to the drug problem plaguing California’s streets.
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“We will get all your tax money for these two [Bass and Raman] they’ve been stealing to put these naked zombies on drug addicts – who walk number two and walk in front of your houses, your businesses, maybe trying to machete or stab you – we’re going to get them forced treatment. Not an empty bed. They need help to get the fentanyl and super meth down,” he said.
The first election for the mayor of Los Angeles will be held on June 2.
