00:00Merrill candidate Spencer Pratt may never escape his reality star past but the
00:05longtime entrepreneur is more complex than headlines suggest and I have
00:10realized that the city I love is being managed into the ground political
00:14science graduate married father of two world hunger advocate outspoken Pacific
00:20Palisades fire survivor and Heidi Montauk super fan to name a few more
00:25descriptors in this video we will detail the rise of Spencer Pratt the super
00:30villain of reality TV you're making yourself proud thinking about what you
00:34did to Spencer Pratt the super villain of current Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and
00:40California governor Gavin Newsom
00:49Spencer was born in LA on August 14th 1983 his father skip was a
00:55dentist in Inglewood and his mother Janet would later give birth to Spencer's
00:59sister Stephanie Spencer attended the prestigious Crossroads School in Santa
01:04Monica where he befriended Brody Jenner son of Olympian Bruce Jenner now Caitlyn
01:10Jenner Pratt enrolled at USC to study political science and eventually
01:14graduated after taking time off to explore the then new and bustling world of
01:19reality television he first appeared on Fox's the princes of Malibu following the
01:25Jenner's in 2005 Spencer then moved over to the Hills MTV spinoff of Laguna Beach the
01:32real Orange County starting in the second season as the boyfriend to Heidi Montauk I
01:37got a sister crying in my face doing drama he yelled at me he screamed at me look at
01:43how he ignores me the show wouldn't have been the same without him he was someone
01:47who could do no wrong who would invalidate anyone else's emotions especially if
01:51there were emotions that were somehow expressing discomfort toward him he
01:55would turn it around on you make you sound like you're the crazy person and I
02:00think we've all probably known people like that in our own lives and it's the
02:04most frustrating thing ever that's the kind of person Spencer Pratt was on reality TV
02:15later in time he comes out and says oh well you know a lot of that was me
02:21performing for the cameras knowing what gets attention knowing what hooks audiences
02:27knowing what reality TV would love and what would get him more attention dubbed
02:33Spidey in the era of combined name couples the two used their instant celebrity to
02:38raise awareness for global hunger appearing at numerous world hunger
02:43relief events throughout 2007 and 2008 all it takes is 19 cents to feed a whole
02:49child a day and six dollars to feed a child for a month so they eloped in Cabo
02:53San Lucas in 2008 and married in Pasadena in April of 2009 the following
02:59summer Heidi filed for divorce but called it off and the two grew closer after
03:04Spencer was arrested in September of 2010 in Costa Rica for boarding an aircraft
03:10with hunting weapons Pratt rapped on Heidi's debut single body language
03:15chillin in the back of the club tonight when Nick became between yes only right
03:18directed the video to her single blackout
03:25and was excited to promote her appearance on the cover of playboy in September of 2009
03:31this is a highlight of my life right here there you go Spencer was seen as a
03:36villain on the hills responsible for coming between Montauk and Lauren Conrad and
03:41he and Heidi embraced the label in future reality TV castings they starred
03:46together on the second season of 2009's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here which
03:51Spencer promoted with a rap single
03:53America hates me cause the media loves me I'm so charged up they can't even unplug me
03:59the couple then starred on 2013's British version of Celebrity Big Brother
04:04finishing as runner-ups to their rival Rylan Clark they then worked on their
04:09relationship on 2015's Marriage Boot Camp and returned to Celebrity Big Brother in
04:142017 Spidey announced their return to MTV at the 2018 Video Music Awards with the
04:21Hills New Beginnings chronicling their business Pratt Daddy Crystals by that
04:27time the couple had son Gunner born in 2017 and had their second son Riker in
04:322022 Pratt has always been an early adapter of social media Twitter is our new
04:38it's the game and in 2018 he won snap chatter of the year at the shorty
04:43awards on January 7th 2025 the Pratt's lost the Pacific Palisades home they bought
04:50for 2.5 million in 2017 to the wildfires that ravaged their neighborhood and
04:56Altadena Spencer put his social media skills to work as an instant critic to
05:01the city and state's governments and eventually sued the Department of Water
05:05Water and Power and the city of Los Angeles even meeting with officials in
05:09Washington DC about investigating Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass this is America we
05:15fight justice is coming along with his constant barrage of social media videos
05:21about the fire if you pass fire aid for any money you email them please send me all your
05:31correspondence Pratt also spent much of 2025 attending Hollywood events often promoting
05:37Heidi's music with his t-shirt choice and clearly increasing his profile in advance of
05:43the release of his memoir the guy you love to hate confessions of a reality TV villain then on
05:49the one-year anniversary of the fires he announced his mayoral campaign his decision to get into
05:54politics at least sounds very personal especially the way he announced it at a event that was very
06:01personal to him he was at the they let us burn rally and let me be clear this just
06:06isn't a campaign this is a mission Pratt raised more than 500,000 collecting
06:13donations from the likes of Jeannie Buss and Catherine McVie his narrative has kind of
06:18been one of frustration what he was frustrated at the lack of what he would
06:22describe as not enough in terms of responding to these fires and at the
06:26forefront of his criticism is incumbent mayor Karen Bass whom he challenged
06:30he called for more accountability and he has since been sort of tapping into that
06:35frustration among the voter base Spencer's appearance in a televised debate
06:39against Bass and Nithya Raman earned rave reviews he's kind of leaning into the
06:44fact that he is not a career politician he's not been in public office before
06:49which a lot of his critiques point to be one of his his weaknesses but he's kind of
06:54leaning into that and even his campaign ideas and the way he's campaigning is
06:58also very unorthodox and his campaign videos became viral sensations some of
07:04the videos are coming from his campaign but a lot of them are coming even from
07:07his supporters which he's leaning into that the idea of these AI videos that
07:11we're seeing sort of go viral one video that showed him as sort of Batman with
07:17Bass and Nithya Raman who are his opponents in roles of puppets and in roles of
07:22the Joker sort of showing an apocalyptic Los Angeles under their rule
07:29fast forward to today I think Spencer Pratt is still very good at marketing himself this
07:34horrible thing that happened is very symbolic of everything that's going wrong in Los Angeles
07:40and you know a lot of his social media messaging is very effective you know I watch his videos and
07:46and I
07:47feel something you know and it just really goes to show how I think Spencer Pratt is
07:51really good as speaking to audiences he makes you feel something I think he can
07:58he really appeals to people's sense of almost anger and helplessness and I think a lot of
08:03people in LA feel that to a certain extent today right clearly he is a man who knows about
08:09getting attention social media and how to market himself
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