{"id":335927,"date":"2026-05-17T00:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=335927"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:59:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:29:30","slug":"chelsea-handler-slams-spencer-pratts-bid-in-la-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/chelsea-handler-slams-spencer-pratts-bid-in-la-mayoral-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Handler Slams Spencer Pratt&#8217;s Bid in LA Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Chelsea Handler <\/b>implored her followers against voting for <b>Spencer Pratt <\/b>to turn into the subsequent Los Angeles mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOh, hi, for those who\u2019re seeing this video, this can be a reminder that a straight, white male [who is a] former reality star that has no previous experience in government mustn&#8217;t be a legitimate political candidate,\u201d Handler, 51, said in a Friday, May 15, video shared via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@chelseahandler\/video\/7640149597536521502?_r=1&#038;_t=ZP-96OcXulRA2Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">TikTok<\/span><\/a>. \u201cHave we learned anything yet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Handler uploaded a photograph of Pratt, 42, next to considered one of President <b>Donald Trump<\/b>, who famously hosted <i>The Apprentice <\/i>nearly a decade before running for office. (Trump, 79, was elected president non-consecutively in 2016 and 2024.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe bar is on the f***ing floor, people,\u201d Handler lamented on Friday. \u201cI would like you to hop over it. OK thanks, have a pleasant day!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Yvette Nicole Brown Reacts to Spencer Pratt Raising $539K for Mayor Race<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tCommunity alum Yvette Nicole Brown cannot imagine notorious reality TV villain Spencer Pratt could pull ahead within the Los Angeles race for mayor. \u201cThis nation is unserious and has learned nothing. \ud83d\udc94,\u201d Brown, 54, wrote via Threads on Friday, April 24, seemingly referring to President Donald Trump, a former reality TV star-turned-politician. Brown also reposted [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pratt, best known for his appearance on MTV\u2019s <i>The Hills <\/i>alongside wife <b>Heidi Montag<\/b>, announced his candidacy for mayor in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe one way I see God letting my parents\u2019 house burn down and my house burn down is that God knows it\u2019s the one approach to turn me against a system that lets this occur to tens of 1000&#8217;s of individuals,\u201d Pratt<span class=\"s1\"> exclusively told <i>Us Weekly<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i>in his cover story. \u201cIn a best-case scenario, I might have helped at the least 10,000 people to get 70 percent of what they got taken from them. That will be poetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cWinning the mayor\u2019s race will probably be a victory for truth and transparency, which is what I\u2019ve been fighting for this whole 12 months. The tip goal is identical: to shine a lightweight into the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pratt and Montag, 39, lost their home within the devastating wildfires that swept through Los Angeles in January 2025.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=400%2C225&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=200%2C113&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=300%2C169&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=400%2C225&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=600%2C338&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=800%2C450&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=900%2C506&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=1000%2C563&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=1200%2C675&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=1600%2C900&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=1800%2C1012&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/audrina-on-spencer-mayoral-race.png?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=1920%2C1080&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"audrina on spencer mayoral race\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Why Audrina Patridge Wants The Hills&#8217; Spencer Pratt to Win L.A. Mayor Race<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe Hills star Audrina Patridge truthfully hopes her former costar Spencer Pratt becomes the subsequent mayor of Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m actually excited,\u201d Partridge, 40, exclusively told Us Weekly on Friday, May 1, while attending Calamigos Ranch Resort &#038; Spa\u2019s Leading Hotels of the World accreditation celebration. \u201cHe impressed me. I listened to a few of his [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe put all of our money into our house and our life to construct something for our children to place of their name and each detail we just kept on yearly for the last eight years,\u201d Pratt<span class=\"s1\"> told <i>Us<\/i> last 12 months<\/span>. \u201cOur house was 3,000 square feet. It is just not a mansion within the Palisades. Every little thing was perfect from the stoves to the washing machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He added on the time, \u201cThat\u2019s all we put our money into \u2014 after which we go and eat nice groceries at Erewhon. But our life was like, \u2018Put our money into our house, eat clean groceries and that\u2019s it.\u2019 We go on one trip a 12 months to see Heidi\u2019s parents in Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Pratt is concentrated on his campaign, he\u2019s received mixed reviews of his candidacy but continues to stay unbothered about any backlash.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Handler implored her followers against voting for Spencer Pratt to turn into the subsequent Los Angeles mayor. \u201cOh, hi, for those who\u2019re seeing this video, this can be a reminder that a straight, white male [who is a] former reality star that has no previous experience in government mustn&#8217;t be a legitimate political candidate,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[2443,1289,24359,51808,29052,997,2248,9900],"class_list":["post-335927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bid","tag-chelsea","tag-handler","tag-mayoral","tag-pratts","tag-race","tag-slams","tag-spencer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335930,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335927\/revisions\/335930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}