Jimmy Kimmel Calls Spencer Pratt ‘Another Narcissist Looking for Attention’ Over L.A. Mayor Run

Jimmy Kimmel looked out at Los Angeles on Wednesday night and saw something he wanted to talk about for a long time.

The late-night host devoted a large chunk of his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to Spencer Pratt’s campaign for L.A. mayor — and didn’t hold back. Pratt, 42, entered the race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires, after he and wife Heidi Montag lost their Pacific Palisades home in the disaster. With the June 2 primary now less than a week away, Kimmel clearly felt the moment required comment.

“This city, let’s be honest, this city is a mess,” Kimmel told his audience. “That is something that became especially obvious during the fires. But the people running the city — when you say ‘This city is a mess,’ they go, ‘No, actually it isn’t and we’re doing a lot.’ And then we look around and say, ‘I’m not seeing it.’”

From there, Kimmel walked through exactly how he thinks Pratt got here. A reality star loses his house. People start agreeing with him for the first time. He enjoys the attention. He starts to think maybe he should be mayor.

“Since he’s a moderately famous person, he gets attention. He’s on the news. He’s on social media. For the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say,” per Us Weekly. “He’s angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about. Does he have solutions to those problems? No. But at least he’s acknowledging that they are problems.”

Polls currently put Pratt at 22% support. Kimmel noted that those same supporters have been giving him campaign money — some of which Pratt immediately spent on a $1,500-a-night room at the Hotel Bel-Air. That, while Pratt runs campaign videos claiming he lives in a trailer on his burned-out lot. “Which he is not,” Kimmel said flatly.

The Trump Comparison

The Trump parallel was the centerpiece of Kimmel’s argument. “You think this guy wants to sit through city council meetings all day talking about zoning? No, he wants to be a star again. And guess what? It’s working. He’s everywhere. People show up to see him speak. He’s doing interviews. He’s making deals for a new reality show. It’s exactly what Donald Trump did,” per Rolling Stone.

Kimmel’s read on Trump’s 2015 campaign: “Donald Trump ran for president because his TV show was going to get canceled and he wanted to be relevant again. Now, the difference between Donald Trump and this guy is Donald Trump actually had a job before he was on a reality show. He wasn’t good at the job. He got all the money for it from his dad. The only thing he was good at was promoting himself, and it turned out that was enough. And as a result, we are now going to have to spend the next three decades digging out of this giant hole he put us in. But this hole now has given birth to Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor. Another narcissist looking for attention.”

Kimmel also brought up Pratt and Montag’s well-documented history of spending — the couple previously admitted to blowing through $10 million on extravagant purchases, including a crystal collection Pratt estimated at $1 million. Pratt’s current side business: selling healing crystals on a site called prattdaddy.com. “That alone should be disqualifying,” Kimmel said.

“The mayor of L.A. is in charge of a $14 billion annual budget. Spencer Pratt is not the person who should be in charge of [it],” he added. “That’s the guy 22% of you want to be mayor of Los Angeles when the Olympics come to town. You gotta be kidding me with this?”

Pratt pushed back on X shortly after the episode aired: “When people criticize me for not having experience, I’m a lifelong Angeleno who’s seen my home city waste away under poor leadership. THAT is my experience. Just like you. Vote for LA. Vote today.”

Kimmel closed by telling viewers that even if they don’t want to vote for Bass, “you better find somebody else to vote for and preferably someone who isn’t wasting our time and money to get himself back on television.”