{"id":2418531,"date":"2026-05-15T18:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2418531"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:46:25","slug":"maga-star-candidate-secretly-planning-reality-show-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maga-star-candidate-secretly-planning-reality-show-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Star Candidate Secretly Planning Reality Show in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A reality TV star running for mayor of America\u2019s second-largest city has signed a contract to turn his campaign\u2014and potentially his time in office\u2014into a television show, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/05\/14\/spencer-pratt-may-film-reality-show-in-mayoral-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:TMZ;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;TMZ&quot;}\" class=\"link \">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spencer Pratt, best known as the villain of millennial reality staple <i>The Hills<\/i>, inked a deal with Los Angeles production company Boardwalk Pictures to document his run against Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, sources with direct knowledge told TMZ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cameras are reportedly about to begin rolling with Pratt, his wife, and fellow <i>Hills<\/i> star Heidi Montag, and their children. Crucially, the contract specifically provides that filming would continue if Pratt wins and is sworn into office. Sources told TMZ the production team and Pratt have not yet discussed the logistics of filming inside the mayor\u2019s office, but the deal is signed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Spencer Pratt emerging from a trailer in an ad campaign. \/ Spencer Pratt For Mayor\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/WUCT4WJqE8E8BdMUu5yf4A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/161aced6130c296a4977643fec681a4b\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Spencer Pratt emerging from a trailer in an ad campaign. \/ Spencer Pratt For Mayor<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 42-year-old built his campaign around the devastating Los Angeles fires of 2025, attacking Bass over her handling of the disaster. In his campaign announcement video, Pratt spread his arms in front of a silver Airstream trailer and declared, \u201cThis is where I live. This is where I live. That\u2019s where Karen Bass, Mayor Bass, burnt down my house,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TMZ subsequently reported that Pratt had, in fact, been staying at the Hotel Bel-Air, where rooms can run up to $2,000 a night, for more than a month. Montag and their two children are not in the Airstream either, residing instead in Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When confronted, Pratt denied saying what he said. \u201cI have never told anyone I lived there,\u201d he told TMZ, before adding: \u201cThe Airstream is a temporary facility. A hotel is a temporary facility. Where my kids are in Santa Barbara right now is temporary housing, this is semantics.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Pratt is taking on L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. \/ Mike Blake\/REUTERS\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/GfuGYXMiZJ_6i.ZCM7qxyQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thedailybeast.com\/7bd903ac3dd9c548a0e4805e0ec43d9f\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Pratt is taking on L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. \/ Mike Blake\/REUTERS<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The trailer troubles arrive at an otherwise promising moment for Pratt\u2019s campaign. He delivered a surprisingly strong performance against Bass in a recent debate, with Mike Bonin, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, telling TheWrap: \u201cI\u2019m sure the debate organizers were worried, going in, about how the reality TV star bad boy would behave. Would he keep interrupting? But he came across as serious and passionate and funny at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pratt\u2019s latest professional credit before entering politics was a stint as Mr. Snow Cone on <i>The Masked Singer<\/i>. But sources told veteran gossip journalist Rob Shuter that he \u201cstudies Trump,\u201d including rally speeches and old episodes of <i>The Apprentice<\/i>. \u201cIf one reality star became president,\u201d one source told Shuter, \u201cSpencer honestly thinks another one can become mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pratt himself has drawn the comparison explicitly, insisting his past villainy was always calculated. \u201cPeople know when I was a reality villain, I was doing it to get paid. It was strategic,\u201d he told CBS News. \u201cI\u2019m being very strategic to win and save L.A., but there\u2019s no strategy when you\u2019re standing in an Airstream on your burned-out town. You can\u2019t fake that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The election is on June 2. Los Angeles has not elected a Republican mayor since 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reality TV star running for mayor of America\u2019s second-largest city has signed a contract to turn his campaign\u2014and potentially his time in office\u2014into a television show, according to TMZ. 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