Spencer Pratt Denies Reality Show Deal Amid LA Mayor Campaign

Spencer Pratt’s been pretty clear about his pivot: he’s not a reality star anymore, he’s a community advocate. So when rumors surfaced on May 14 that The Hills alum had signed a deal with Boardwalk Pictures to film a reality show should he win the LA mayor’s race, his team moved fast to shut it down.

Pratt’s rep told Us Weekly there’s no contract, no production, and no cameras trailing the campaign. It’s a telling move for someone trying to position himself as a serious political candidate. Fair or not, the optics of a former MTV fixture turning his mayoral bid into a docuseries would’ve been…rough. Especially when he’s already facing skepticism about his political credentials.

The 42-year-old The Hills alum announced his run in January, about a year after the Palisades Fire devastated California. Pratt lost his home in those fires along with his wife Heidi Montag and their two sons, Gunner, 8, and Ryker, 3. The fires killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and businesses. That personal connection fuels his campaign message: the system in Los Angeles is broken, and he’s positioning himself as the outsider ready to expose it.

At a public demonstration on January 7 called“They Let Us Burn,”Pratt didn’t hold back.“The system in Los Angeles isn’t struggling, it’s fundamentally broken,”he said.“It is a machine designed to protect the people at the top and the friends they exchange favors with while the rest of us drown in toxic smoke and ash.”He’s leaning hard into that anti-establishment angle, even comparing himself to former President Barack Obama during a recent NBC Los Angeles interview—a claim that’s generating about as much eye-roll as it sounds.

What’s undeniable is that Pratt’s got high-profile backing. Joe Rogan, Kristin Cavallari, Nick Viall, Katharine McPhee, and David Foster are among his supporters. McPhee and Foster even held a lavish fundraiser in their Brentwood Park backyard earlier this week, where McPhee sang her own lyrics to Tina Turner’s 1989 classic“The Best,”substituting the names of his opponents. Not everyone’s convinced, though—his own sister Stephanie called voting for him“a vote for stupidity”back in February.

Pratt faces off against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman in what’s shaping up to be one of LA’s most unusual mayoral races. Love him or think he’s out of his depth, one thing’s clear: the cameras may not be rolling anymore, but the spotlight sure is.