Spencer Pratt has made it clear that he isn’t chasing the glitz and glamour of Hollywood endorsements in his run for Los Angeles mayor.
Despite previously mentioning support from well-known actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, Pratt emphasized his indifference toward celebrity backing during a recent appearance on Greg Gutfeld’s Fox News late-night show.
“I don’t actually want celebrities to endorse me,” Pratt expressed candidly. “The only endorsements I seek are from the mothers and animal lovers of LA. They are the heart of my campaign.” His remarks were met with enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Pratt, whose platform prioritizes the safety of LA’s streets for families, particularly mothers with children, was unfazed by the lack of celebrity support. He even welcomed criticism from the entertainment elite, seeing it as a sign of success. “I’m cool if no celebrity ever endorses me,” he remarked with a smile. “I actually love when celebrities attack me because it means I’m on the right track.”
This stance came just a day after Pratt mentioned endorsements from DiCaprio and Foxx in an interview with Us Weekly, highlighting the complexity of navigating celebrity influence in political campaigns.
Pratt had claimed the endorsements from Oscar winners DiCaprio and Foxx in an interview with Us Weekly a day earlier.
“I don’t name-drop, but I had two of my favorite people ever support me,” he told the publication. “Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx both said, ‘Please, Mr. Mayor, we want these streets safe again.’ If their reps try to deny this happened, I have multiple witnesses. It was an out-of-body experience.”
Pratt also counts support from celebs like his fellow “The Hills” stars actors Brody Jenner, Kristin Cavallari and Audrina Patridge, as well as actor Dennis Quaid, rapper Big Sean, Grammy-winning songwriter David Foster, socialite Paris Hilton, and Los Angeles Lakers CEO Jeanie Buss.
Pratt has run a campaign based on his advocacy for Palisades Fire victims and cleaning up LA streets.
He told Gutfeld that his pursuit of the mayoral crown is based on common sense.
“My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common-sense American, is the ‘look around’ candidate,” he said.
“You look around and see with your own eyes what I’m saying, and it’s true. And that’s why I’m gonna to win, because my opponents just lie, and they’ve had 10 years combined that they’ve created everything that they are looking around and seeing. So I would say, no more of this.”
Pratt is set to face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and socialist-linked City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in the June 2 primary. If no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two finishers will advance to face each other in the November general election.
A recent UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll showed Bass with 26% support of likely voters, Raman at 25%, and Pratt at 22%.
