Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt reacted angrily on social media after a journalist pointed out that he’s not currently living in Los Angeles.
The former cast member of reality show The Hills has claimed in multiple campaign videos that he was living in a trailer at the site of his Palisades home, which burned down in the 2025 L.A. fires.
However, recent reporting has uncovered that Pratt has, in fact, been splitting time between a high-end L.A. hotel and a rental house outside the city.
On X, Variety journalist Marlow Stern reacted to a headline claiming that Pratt plans to leave Los Angeles if he loses the election in June by writing: “he… lives in santa barbara.”
Pratt was clearly upset by the jibe, writing in response: “My house burned down. I lost everything. I can’t rebuild. As a 42 year old man with 2 kids, I’ve had to move into my parents’ house, and I’m getting attacked for that? This is journalism?”
Pratt continued: “This is why no decent people ever get into politics. This is why you only have goblins running everything. God help you if you try to make things right for your community…if you lose your entire town, ‘journalists’ mock you for not making your kids sleep in the toxic dirt on your burned out lot. Who raised you, dude?”
Pratt subsequently retweeted a comment replying to Stern from another X user that reads: “This s***stain thinks he has some kind of gotcha on Palisades residents. That we aren’t allowed to vote or hold office because our houses burned down. Hey @Variety you employ this guy who makes these disgusting claims against fire victims?”
In an April 29 ad for his campaign, Pratt stood in front of the trailer at his fire-charred Palisades lot and said: “This is where I live.”
Elsewhere in the ad, he stands in front of his rival candidates’ intact homes, including that of current Mayor Karen Bass, whom he has accused of failing to stop the fires.
“I’m living in my trailer by the beach and I’m winning this race,” Pratt said in an April 6 video.
However, TMZ has reported that Pratt has been spending time in recent weeks at the five-star Hotel Bel-Air, where a night’s stay often costs more than $1,000.
Pratt’s wife, fellow Hills star and singer Heidi Montag, told The Independent last year that the family is living in a rental in Santa Barbara and is unsure of whether they will be able to rebuild in the Palisades.
