Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor in Los Angeles, fired the leadership of California and criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom called him “a demon” when he expressed the state’s failure to respond to the wildfire that destroyed the Palisades last year.
“He’s a demon. He’s literally from hell,” Pratt said of Newsom in a sit-down with Ankler Media executive Janice Min.
The former “The Hills” bad boy turned mayor said he’s felt that way about Newsom since the governor was caught eating at the French Laundry when his pandemic mandate forced Pratt to close his crystal business.
“Newsom is a great reality star, but who you are, you’re the one responsible for everything that fails,” Pratt said.
The comments came from a wide-ranging conversation with Min, who once featured Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag on multiple Us Weekly covers during their 2000s heyday. Now, nearly two decades later, Pratt is reinventing himself as a political outsider determined to elevate Los Angeles politics.
Pratt’s mayoral bid was prompted by the Jan. 7 fire. 2025 Pacific Palisades, who destroyed his home. He says he watched the flames burn towards his place while waiting for the firefighters who did not come.
“I never heard one fire engine, I never heard a siren go off,” said Pratt, who was told by firefighters that “there was no equipment coming.”
Pratt is now the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power, alleging water system failures and negligence — including that a nearby lake was offline during a critical window.
He argues that helicopters have wasted precious time flying to Malibu and Encino to search for water instead of quickly replenishing the area.
Pratt announced his candidacy on the anniversary of the fire and will run in the June 2 nonpartisan race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
Pratt said he entered the race after waiting in vain for another suitable striker to emerge.
“I have been waiting for someone to announce that they will run and have the same strength as me,” he said. “And it didn’t show up.”
He accused Bass of sugarcoating recent reports about the city’s response to the Palisades Fire and its mistreatment of the homeless.
“They said, ‘let’s look to the future, let’s move forward.’ No, no, no, no. That’s not the case. We will go back. We will look at what went wrong here and get all the people involved out and move on,” said Pratt.
He even has a “black list” of officials he says he will remove on day one, including the top brass at LAPD, LAFD, and the LA Department of Water and Power.
Pratt spoke of his love for LA, but lamented what he saw as the Hollywood industry and the shrinking city, reaching a point where a show like “The Hills” couldn’t exist.
“You’re going to have a show where Heidi and Spencer trip over fentanyl addicts on the side of the road and step on human feces.”
