Spencer Pratt says he wants no celebrity endorsements for LA mayor

Former reality television personality Spencer Pratt said he does not want celebrity endorsements for his Los Angeles mayoral campaign.

"I actually don't want celebrities to come out and endorse me," he said Thursday on "Gutfeld!" "I don't want anybody to endorse me except for the moms and the animal lovers in LA. That's my entire vote."

Pratt said he welcomes attacks from celebrities. "I'm cool if no celebrity ever endorses me. I actually love when the celebrities attack me because then I'm like, oh, I am doing so well," he said.

His comments came as his campaign raised millions of dollars, outpacing the efforts of incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and progressive candidate Nithya Raman. Dennis Quaid, Paris Hilton, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Katharine McPhee and David Foster have publicly supported Pratt. He has also claimed private endorsements from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx, though those have not been confirmed publicly. Actor Samuel L. Jackson and director JJ Abrams have contributed to Bass.

Pratt told host Greg Gutfeld that he does not view celebrity support as a priority. "This is my favorite thing the internet says. They're like, he's so big on the internet, but is he big in the streets? Yes, the people I'm surging with are the people having to step over the naked drug addicts and step into human poop to get their $20 matcha," he said. "Those are the people that I'm surging, the moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl, needles, and naked drug-addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off."

A recent UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll showed Bass with 26 percent of likely voters, Raman at 25 percent and Pratt at 22 percent. Pratt, who identifies as a Republican, has run an aggressive campaign with viral ads aimed at his opponents. He said all of his supporters are Democrats and described himself as the "look around" candidate.

"You look around and see with your own eyes what I'm saying, and it's true," he said. "And that's why I'm gonna 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."

Pratt has criticized Bass and Raman over their handling of the January 2025 fires and the city's homelessness crisis. He announced his run in January with the goal of removing Bass from office. He said some residents still support Bass despite the fires. "Yeah, there's definitely lunatics. Their houses didn't burn down, but they could have been saved by the U.S. Forest Service, who came in to save the day, Chief Bobby Garcia on the 8th," he said. "These people have convinced themselves that Palisades burned down because of climate change, and these imaginary hurricane winds that did not exist."

Winds reached 40 mph during the fires, with gusts up to 86 mph, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Pratt said he was living in a trailer after his $3.8 million Pacific Palisades home burned, though reports later said he stayed at the Bel-Air Hotel. He described the homelessness crisis as a "horror movie" and called for mandatory medical treatment for people using fentanyl and other drugs.

"We're going to get all your tax money that these two have been stealing to put these naked drug addict zombies – that are going number two and number one in front of your houses, your businesses, maybe trying to machete you or stab you – we're gonna get them mandatory medical treatment," he said.