Spencer Pratt Defends Hotel Stay Amid LA Mayoral Campaign, Blames Safety Threats

Spencer Pratt pushed back against critics this week, saying safety threats drove him to check into a high-end hotel.

Pratt responded Wednesday as questions grew about his living arrangements. Reports had surfaced that he was not staying in an Airstream trailer parked at his former California home. The former Hills star confirmed he is not using the trailer, even though he implied otherwise in a recent mayoral campaign ad.

"Hey guys, why don’t they wanna talk about why I need a hotel in the first place?" Pratt wrote on X. "Karen Bass let my home burn down. Also 6,000 of my neighbors. NBD."

"Funny how they never attack my policy ideas," the reality TV star added in another post. "They can only try to assassinate your character. They don’t wanna talk about my debate masterclass a week ago, they wanna talk about a reality show from a lifetime ago."

"That’s because they want the continued decline of the city," Pratt continued. "They are locked in an ideological death spiral and can’t shake it. Come at my policies or go sit back down on the back bench. I’m in the arena, son."

Pratt has stayed at the Hotel Bel-Air for the past month, while his wife and children remain in Carpinteria, California, sources told TMZ. The 42-year-old told the outlet the Airstream had grown unsafe during his campaign for Los Angeles mayor. He called the hotel's armed security his only option.

"The reality is the Ba--holes and Ramaniacs are a little bit whacko, and since I destroyed them in the debate, and am surging in the polls, they are getting increasingly desperate and hostile," he explained.

"I can't talk about specific threats, but that lot is ... unsafe now," Pratt added.

Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Pratt.

Pratt targeted the media in April, accusing the Los Angeles Times of harassing his family to expose his children's locations as his campaign rose in the polls. He claimed a journalist contacted his wife, sister, mother and a favorite restaurant to track family details.

"Creepy LA Times 'journalist' has been phone-stalking & harassing my sister, my wife, my MOM, and even my favorite burrito restaurant trying to dox where my kids sleep and go to school, all because I pulled ahead of Nithya Raman in the polls, and she sent her lapdog to do her dirty work," Pratt wrote on X.

"That’s what they call 'journalism' at the LA Times, folks!" he added. "They’re scared of our campaign. We’re gonna take back our city, and they know they can’t stop us."

A Los Angeles Times spokesperson told Fox News Digital: "The Times learned that Mr. Pratt was living in Carpinteria, and contacted him and those around him for comment. We stand by our story and the reporting of our journalists."

Pratt lost his home in the deadly Jan. 7 Palisades wildfire. He announced his mayoral run that day, on the fire's one-year anniversary.

Speaking to a crowd at a fire anniversary event called "They Let Us Burn!," Pratt said, "this just isn’t a campaign, this is a mission. And we are going to expose the system." The rally criticized state and local government handling of the fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

After the fire, Pratt criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats, for failing to prevent it. He has sued the city of Los Angeles, blaming the city and its municipal water department for water problems that hindered firefighters and caused property damage.