Jimmy Kimmel used his show to beg Los Angeles to reject Spencer Pratt.
Pratt went on Fox News and pulled the back curtain Hollywood celebrities' politics.
And he explained how he bucked conventional wisdom to turn the race upside down.
Spencer Pratt Brushed Off Celebrity Endorsements on Gutfeld and the LA Mayor Race Changed
Spencer Pratt is a political outsider and former reality TV star surging against Democrat incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race — and he sat down with Greg Gutfeld to talk about it.
Gutfeld asked Pratt about the celebrity names quietly backing his campaign — Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx — the ones who won't say it publicly.
Pratt waved it off.
"What I have learned is I actually don't want celebrities to come out and endorse me," he said.
"I don't want anybody to endorse me except for the moms and animal lovers in LA. That's my entire vote."
The crowd erupted.
Then he twisted the knife: "I'm cool if no celebrity ever endorses me. I actually love it when they attack me because then I'm like, oh, I'm doing so well."
Pratt is polling at 22 percent in the latest UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times survey, with Bass at 26 and city council member Nithya Raman at 25.
No candidate is anywhere near the 50 percent needed to win outright in the June 2 primary.
Karen Bass is fighting for her political survival — and losing ground to a man she dismissed as a reality TV punchline four months ago.
Karen Bass Cut the LA Fire Budget and Spencer Pratt Named Her for It
Pratt didn't stop at the celebrity line.
He told Gutfeld what the LA media won't report: who is actually showing up for his campaign.
"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 I'm surging with — the moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl needles and naked drug addict zombies with machetes that will maybe chop a limb off."
Fire Chief Kristin Crowley told Bass nine weeks before the Palisades fire that the department needed $17 million to keep the city safe.
Bass denied the request, flew to Ghana while the National Weather Service was issuing critical fire weather warnings, and returned to find the Palisades burning.
LADWP CEO Janisse Quiñones — installed by Bass at $750,000 a year — had left the Santa Ynez Reservoir empty for nearly twelve months because a tear in its floating cover went unrepaired, a fix that would have cost less than $200,000.
Twelve people died. Thousands of structures burned across the city. Pratt's own home was among them.
Quiñones resigned in March and departed for Puerto Rico.
Bass called her tenure "steady leadership."
Pratt told Gutfeld that every single one of his supporters is a Democrat.
"In LA, since all of my supporters are actually Democrats, it's the socialists and the communists that have hijacked their actual Bill Clinton-esque — yes, let's not have naked drug addicts on the street masturbating in front of kids."
"Now that's become this new DSA brand."
He can't even post what constituents send him — videos too graphic for his accounts to survive.
"Like literally a thousand of these videos. It's beyond a horror movie because a horror movie wouldn't even do that."
Gutfeld asked whether fire victims are still voting for Bass.
"There's definitely lunatics," Pratt said.
"But these people have convinced themselves the Palisades burned down because of climate change and these imaginary hurricane winds that did not exist."
Bass was drinking in Ghana when the warnings came in. Quiñones had drained the reservoirs. The fire chief had begged for $17 million nine weeks earlier and Bass said no.
Bass needs 50 percent tomorrow to avoid a November runoff — and she's sitting at 26. Raman is one point behind her. Pratt is three back.
The moms of Los Angeles already know who they're voting for.
Sources:
- Nora Moriarty, "Spencer Pratt Says He Doesn't Want Celebrity Endorsements in His LA Mayoral Campaign, Loves Attacks," Fox News, May 28, 2026.
- Jennifer Van Laar, "The Pratt Effect? Woman Responsible for Empty Palisades Reservoir Gets Booted," RedState, March 4, 2026.
- Staff, "Spencer Pratt Exposes Karen Bass Over Wildfire Disaster To Her Face Mid-Debate," The Daily Caller, May 7, 2026.
- Mike LaChance, "Spencer Pratt Says He's Not Interested in Celebrity Support in Appearance on Gutfeld!" Legal Insurrection, May 29, 2026.
