Spencer Pratt‘s Los Angeles mayoral run just got a lot more complicated, and not because of anything happening at City Hall. The former “Hills” star, who earned Joe Rogan‘s full-throated endorsement earlier this year, has now signed a production deal with L.A.-based Boardwalk Pictures to document his political campaign on camera. One voice from the Roganverse is not amused.
The deal would put Pratt, his wife Heidi Montag, and their children at the center of a series tracking his journey through the race. According to sources familiar with the arrangement, the cameras would keep rolling even if Pratt crosses the finish line and gets sworn into office.
Comedian Tim Dillon put it bluntly in a recent podcast episode, “This right here gives you the idea that this man is unfit. You do not need to be on another reality show.”
Dillon elaborated on what that outcome would actually look like. He stated, “So, he’s going to be back on reality TV. So, that’s what’s going to happen if he wins. People are going to go, what are you watching? And you’re going to go, the mayor of Los Angeles?”
The deal adds to Pratt’s already scrutinized campaign. Sources say Montag and the children are expected to be prominently featured in the production, though the family is currently living well outside the city, roughly 70 miles up the coast in Carpinteria.
Pratt himself is spending the bulk of his time in Los Angeles pursuing the race, and if he prevails in the election, the family would presumably relocate to the mayor’s official residence in the Hancock Park area.
Questions about Pratt’s living situation have also followed the campaign in recent weeks. He had been seen in campaign materials standing in front of an Airstream trailer, and the imagery carried a clear message about his circumstances following the Palisades fires.
When pressed on whether he actually lived there, Pratt told reporters he had never claimed otherwise, a statement that raised eyebrows given the visuals from his own promotional content. It later emerged that he has been staying at the Bel Air Hotel, where nightly rates start at no less than $1,500, with Pratt citing safety concerns as the reason for the arrangement.
None of this has dimmed the support he received from Joe Rogan, who made his endorsement clear during a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. “I’m rooting for you. I mean, if I lived in Los Angeles, no question whatsoever I would vote for you,” Rogan told Pratt directly.
The conversation ranged from the Palisades fires to the city’s homelessness crisis to financial mismanagement at the government level, with Rogan arguing that the fires were a foreseeable failure rather than an environmental inevitability.
“The lack of preparation for the Palisades fires was astonishing. The fact that the reservoir was empty was criminal mismanagement. It was just that everybody knew that we had fires, like massive fires, that it was a dry place, and when the Santa Ana winds would blow, if something caught fire, it was a real problem. We had known that forever,” Rogan said.
On the homelessness front, Rogan pointed to what he described as a system designed to consume public money without producing results.
“There’s no other explanation other than extensive fraud. There’s no way they could be getting that much money from our taxes and have this big of a problem with crime and with homelessness. And it’s almost like they want everybody to feel helpless,” he said.
He also credited efforts by Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative with pulling back the curtain on how nonprofit and government funding actually flows. “I don’t think before DOGE and before Elon started investigating into a lot of these NGOs, I don’t think anybody was really aware of how this all works and how there’s a whole bureaucracy, like a business that’s set up where a bunch of people get paid from this money to essentially make no improvements whatsoever,” Rogan said.
Pratt used the platform to highlight a contrast he sees as emblematic of the city’s dysfunction, pointing to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s struggle to secure basic resources while hundreds of millions in homelessness funding reportedly went unspent.
“You can’t steal that money. You want to know how sick it is right now? The fire department, their union, all the members had to take their own money to get on a ballot measure, a million dollars, as they all pulled together to get a ballot measure this coming election to get a half cent on sales tax in LA so that they could have money to fund actual things they need,” Pratt said.
Rogan closed out the discussion by framing the candidacy as something larger than one race in one city.
“If you could really change Los Angeles and turn it around, that would be absolutely fantastic. It would be a great story. It would be really amazing and it would give hope to a lot of other cities that are experiencing similar situations where I think a lot of other people would follow your path,” he said.
