{"id":503198,"date":"2026-01-09T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503198\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:13:17","slug":"reality-tv-star-spencer-pratt-announces-bid-for-l-a-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503198\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt Announces Bid for L.A. Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt Announces Bid for L.A. Mayor<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt Announces Bid for L.A. MayorOn Wednesday, Spencer Pratt, star of the MTV reality show \u201cThe Hills,\u201d announced that he would be challenging Mayor Karen Bass in the June election. Mr. Pratt became an outspoken critic of California\u2019s liberal leaders after his home burned down in the Palisades fire last year.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"css-p98d0w\">\n<dt class=\"css-xx7kwh\"\/>\n<dd class=\"css-4gvq6l\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles, and I\u2019m done waiting for someone to take real action. [cheering] That\u2019s why I am running or mayor. You know I\u2019ve spent a lot of my life in the public eye, and I\u2019ve seen the games people play. I know the scripts they follow and the masks they wear. But this past year has stripped all that away. I have looked at my kids and my wife. I\u2019ve looked at my family and my neighbors, and I have realized that the city I love is being managed into the ground by people who don\u2019t have the courage to actually lead.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spencer Pratt, dressed in a Pacific Palisades T-shirt, stands in front of a fence addressing a small crowd.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NAT-LA-FIRES-PRATT-fgjq-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>On Wednesday, Spencer Pratt, star of the MTV reality show \u201cThe Hills,\u201d announced that he would be challenging Mayor Karen Bass in the June election. Mr. Pratt became an outspoken critic of California\u2019s liberal leaders after his home burned down in the Palisades fire last year.<\/p>\n<p>By Jamie Leventhal<\/p>\n<p>January 8, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Reality TV Star Spencer Pratt Announces Bid for L.A. Mayor transcript Back transcript Reality TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,4216,2961,49690,2650,224,5337,58998,190258,225615],"class_list":{"0":"post-503198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-wildfires","13":"tag-local-government","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-reality-television","17":"tag-spencer-pratt","18":"tag-the-hills"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115863906150048145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}