When we last checked in with Spencer Pratt, he and Heidi Montag were busy plugging Heidi’s music to raise money after their Palisades home burnt down. Since then, Spencer has spent the better part of the last year criticizing California governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. Speaking of, Spencer’s latest grift is running for Mayor of Los Angeles. He’s still a registered Republican, but he’s running as an Independent.
Spencer has also being making the rounds to promote his other new hustle, a memoir titled, The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions from a Reality TV Villain. During another book stop on CBS Mornings on Monday, Spencer sat down with Gayle King. When talking about his time on The Hills, Gayle made a comment about his persona that surprised Spencer so much that he told Page Six Radio that he suspected it was a “bait and switch.”
“You know, I’ve been called everything at this point [but] I haven’t been called that,” Pratt, 42, shared on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio on Jan. 28. “But my reaction [to] being called everything is pretty good.”
The Hills alum, who is currently running for Mayor of Los Angeles, shared that King’s comment did catch him off-guard after a very different pre-show interview.
“She threw me off because we had a 30-min pre [interview] and she had notes, my whole book, all these quotes,” he shared. “So I don’t know if she did it to get me soft, you know? If it was a bait and switch, like she’s like a pro or once she gets in front of the camera? But I was expecting to get gassed up and just be like, ‘Oh, this book is like Robert Frost, it’s so poetic,’ and then she was like, ‘You’re a douche canoe!’ ”
Ultimately, Pratt wasn’t bothered by the comment, noting, “I’m very humble these days. I’m grateful to be sitting with lights in a studio and not just filming myself. You can get away with calling me anything with good lighting.”
During the interview, King began by talking about The Hills, saying, “Spencer, there were so many times where really you were just a douche canoe on that show. And you just seemed to amp it up, amp it up, amp it up. Was there ever a time when you got home, and you’d go, ‘I can’t believe I just did that or just said that’? Or were you aware of how you were coming across at the time?”
“Oh, I was well aware. If anything, I probably should have been a bigger douche canoe,” Pratt quipped in response. “I think the rest of the cast should have all tried to be bigger douche canoes.”
As I side-eye that declaration of newfound humility, I’m not sure why Spencer’s making such a big deal out of a line of questioning that he’s probably gotten a hundred times before. I mean, Gayle didn’t really say anything out of line here. No lies were spoken, no retractions need to be issued. Spencer himself has played into his d-bag villain reputation and admitted that he played it up on The Hills. He should be honored that Gayle King called him a “douche canoe” and not a less playful description. It sounds like his first fundraising email/text blast just got written for him.
As for the mayor’s race…I know the right is perfectly fine backing an inexperienced grifter as long as he’s their grifter, but I doubt Spencer seriously intends on running and winning. He’ll take the social media engagement paychecks and the clout from right-wing media appearances, but I bet that’s as far as he’ll go. But if by some wild turn of events, he does get into Getty House, I suspect it won’t be long before he turns running California’s most populated city into a reality TV show, too.
“I probably should’ve been a bigger douche canoe”: Spencer Pratt says playing a villain type on “The Hills” helped him get bonuses and keep the show running, further incentivizing playing that role.
Pratt writes about his time on the popular MTV series and his life before and… pic.twitter.com/gLH0cgbz0u
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) January 26, 2026
Photos credit: Getty Images, Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
DJT only ran for pres the first time around because he wanted to use the campaign to promote his new cable channel or some other grift. He and his family were in disbelief that he actually won and they should put together a transition team. So Spencer may not intend to win, but it doesn’t mean he won’t. He should go at it as a Maga candidate, though. He already has the wife with the perfect maga look
That was my thought. What we don’t need is another reality TV ‘star’ thinking they know how government works. Nobody needs that.
He can entertain me, make me chuckle for like 5 minutes, then I must move on. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. oh Heidi’s face! Oh, honey, stop, and you say you have no $$$$ for stuff….eek.
The only good thing is that he does is bring attention to wildfires and their aftermath
…her face…her original face, I thought she was beautiful…now she looks like a wax figure
She was pretty. Sad she didn’t think so.
I’m just looking at her and her hair and asking why?
Why is she wearing that wig?
She needs gay friends
it’s the uncanniest of Uncanny Valley I’ve seen in a minute
I thought he was standing next to someone who just performed in a play or something – she has that look that is appreciated more from 50 feet away. I just do not understand how we have gotten to a point in history where some women look so inhuman. It’s so bizarre to me – republicants got so many women to butcher themselves into ugliness.
He’s running for political office and we know what kind of damage unqualified reality stars do in government! I say she didn’t go hard enough.
I love that Gayle did this. That is all.
I can’t even focus in the article because his wife got body snatched by a bad department store mannequin from the 1980s! Who did her like this? I must be old because I remember when she was just a cute wholesome girl next door type and now…. Eek 😱
Is Heidi Mintag wearing a wig in that photo?
In the header photo I thought he was standing next to a wax figure of his wife. I feel horrible thinking that😭
This guy is the epitome of a douche canoe / douche bag. I can’t stand either of these two no-talent hacks. She can’t sing, never could, and he has no discernable talent except being a DB!
Can’t wait for these two to disappear into the oblivion again…
He should be happy anyone is talking about him at all