Spencer Pratt Is Running For Mayor Of Los Angeles.

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Spencer Pratt From The Hills. That Spencer Pratt. He Is Serious. He Has Given An Interview. He Has Positions On Policy.

The former reality TV villain who spent six seasons manufacturing drama on The Hills and once famously hoarded crystals in a mansion is now running for the nation's second-largest city on what appears to be a genuine platform. Los Angeles has seen stranger things. Mostly because Los Angeles is Los Angeles.

By Box Office Betty, Satirz Entertainment & Governance Desk  |  May 11, 2026LOS ANGELES — Spencer Pratt, who viewers of The Hills will remember as the man who made passive-aggression into an art form across six seasons of reality television between 2006 and 2010, who subsequently became famous for spending his MTV money on crystals and staging his own media disappearance, and who more recently has rehabilitated himself as a self-aware podcast personality and father — is running for Mayor of Los Angeles. He confirmed this in an exclusive interview with CBS News. He has positions. He articulated them. The positions involve housing, homelessness, and public safety. He said them with the energy of someone who has genuinely been thinking about them.

This is the sentence this reporter did not expect to write: Spencer Pratt appears to have done research. His platform is not incoherent. He is not trolling. Los Angeles, which recently fired its previous mayor over the January 2025 wildfire response and is currently governed by interim arrangements of varying effectiveness, is a city that has, in the last eighteen months, burned, flooded, and laid off 1,600 city workers. Into this environment walks Spencer Pratt with hair gel and municipal policy positions.

"I'm serious about this."— Spencer Pratt, to CBS News, May 2026. He has said this. He looks serious. This reporter has watched forty hours of The Hills. The dissonance is profound and also somewhat inspiring.

His main competition includes actual politicians, former city council members, and at least three people who have never been on television. Los Angeles will decide in November. The city that elected a former NBA player as its mayor in other timelines and gave the world reality television as a genre is genuinely capable of anything. Spencer Pratt is not the strangest thing Los Angeles has ever produced. He is not even the strangest thing this week. He may, improbably, be qualified. The crystals are not part of the platform. We checked.

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Disclaimer: Satire. Spencer Pratt's mayoral run is real and confirmed by CBS News, May 11, 2026. His policy positions are real and have been articulated. The crystals are a documented part of his biography. — Ed.