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Former reality television personality turned Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said he is not looking for celebrity endorsements during an appearance Thursday on “Gutfeld!”
“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 the animal lovers in LA. That’s my entire vote.”
“I’m cool if no celebrity ever endorses me. I actually love when the celebrities attack me because then I’m like, oh, I am doing so well.”
Pratt’s comments come as his campaign hauls in millions of dollars, outpacing the campaigns of his competitors, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and progressive Nithya Raman.
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Television personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt visited “Fox & Friends” at Fox News Channel Studios on Jan. 28, 2026, in New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)
Dennis Quaid, Paris Hilton, Lakers owner Jeanie Buss, Katharine McPhee, David Foster and more are among the celebrities who have supported the mayoral hopeful. Pratt has also claimed Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx have privately endorsed him, but this alleged support has not been in public. Actor Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars director JJ Abrams are among those who have thrown money behind Bass.
Still, Pratt told “Gutfeld!” he does not consider celebrity endorsements his top priority.
“This is my favorite thing the internet says. They’re like, he’s so big on the internet, but is he big in the streets? 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 the people that I’m surging the moms across Los Angeles who have to use their strollers around fentanyl, needles, and naked drug-addict zombies with machetes that maybe will chop a limb off.”
Recent polling shows Bass with 26% of likely voters, Raman at 25% and Pratt at 22%, according to a UC Berkeley-Los Angeles Times poll.
Pratt, who considers himself a Republican, has gained traction for his aggressive, viral campaign advertisements targeting his opponents.
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Despite being right-leaning in the deep blue California city of LA, Pratt told host Greg Gutfeld that “all” of his supporters are Democrats and argued his campaign is based on “common sense.”
Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman talks with Mayor Karen Bass at Hazeltine Park in Sherman Oaks on Feb. 10, 2024, before a campaign event. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“My campaign now, how I identify, besides being the common sense American, is the ‘look around‘ candidate,” the former reality television personality said.