Chrishell Stause Calls Out ‘Insecure’ Katharine McPhee

Chrishell Stause has never been shy about her opinions, and this week she turned them squarely on Katharine McPhee — and it got personal fast.

The Selling Sunset alum dropped a pointed comment on a TikTok video examining McPhee’s relationship history, and the words landed like a grenade. “One day she will find her real inner confidence,” Stause wrote, “but it won’t come until after she is disregarded enough times by the problematic men she backs.” Then she twisted the knife: “An insecure woman will steal your man, and give the worst advice.”

She didn’t leave it there. Over on Threads, Stause made the political connection explicit: “If you’re in these streets campaigning for Trump backed Pratt, yeah, I’m gonna eye roll your advice on men Katherine.”

What Set Stause Off

The whole thing started with a TikTok from influencer Jordy Cray that unpacked McPhee’s dating history in considerable detail — from her first marriage to Nick Cokas (who was roughly 20 years her senior, and whom she wed in 2008 after meeting during her American Idol run) to her current marriage to music producer David Foster, who is 35 years older than her. McPhee, 42, married Foster, 76, in June 2019, becoming his fifth wife.

Cray’s video also revisited the 2013 cheating scandal that became tabloid fodder at the time — photos surfaced of McPhee kissing her Smash director Michael Morris while she was still married to Cokas. Morris was also married then, to actress Mary McCormack, and the two are still together. McPhee and Cokas briefly reconciled but ultimately divorced, with the split finalized in 2016.

McPhee addressed that chapter of her life in a 2016 interview with Ocean Drive magazine. “I got married really young, and then divorced,” she said. “This is what I should have been doing when I was 20 instead of planning a wedding. But I don’t have any regrets. All of the choices I made I learned from in a really deep way.”

Cray wrapped his video with a direct message to his audience: “If you got nothing from this video, let me just end by saying this: Please, if you live in Los Angeles, do not vote for Spencer Pratt.”

That’s exactly where Stause was already standing.

The Fundraiser That Started It All

McPhee and Foster hosted a fundraiser for Spencer Pratt‘s mayoral campaign at their Brentwood Park home, and the video that circulated afterward did not exactly play well online. Foster played piano while McPhee performed a rewritten version of Tina Turner’s 1989 classic “The Best” — with lyrics swapped out to declare that Pratt is “better than [LA Mayor] Karen Bass and [LA Councilmember] Nithya Raman.” At one point, she forgot Raman’s first name entirely and called her “Cynthia” instead.

The footage spread quickly, and the reactions were not kind. “This is embarrassing,” one user wrote. Others questioned why wealthy celebrities were amplifying a campaign from someone with no political experience. “What a disgusting display of wealth,” another commenter posted. “This man has done nothing to deserve a political position.” Some said the whole event was simply “not a good look for the Fosters.”

Pratt launched his mayoral bid in the aftermath of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfires, which destroyed his own home. He’s since made homelessness and public safety the pillars of his campaign, and he’s been blunt about his motivations. “Business as usual is a death sentence for Los Angeles,” he said when announcing his run. “And I’m done waiting for someone to take real action. That’s why I am running for mayor. But let me be clear, this just isn’t a campaign. This is a mission, and we are going to expose the system. We are going into every dark corner of L.A. politics and disinfecting the city with our light.”

Stause’s position on all of it has been consistent. Back in April, she wrote on Threads: “Can I please implore NO MORE reality star politicians PLEASE! I have nothing against Spencer! In fact I like him on TV! NOT in the government tho. CA please pull it together.”

Lauren Conrad’s Ice-Cold Non-Answer

Stause isn’t the only one keeping Pratt at arm’s length. His former The Hills co-star Lauren Conrad had her own uncomfortable moment when the subject came up during a recent appearance on NBC’s Today.

Asked point-blank whether she planned to vote for him, Conrad, 40, deflected with a simple geographic fact: “I’m not a resident of Los Angeles.” When pressed on whether the two had finally buried their long-running feud from their MTV days, her answer was just as brief.

“Sure,” she said. “You’re asking me about people I haven’t spoken to in decades.”

Meanwhile, E! News reached out to McPhee’s representatives for comment on Stause’s remarks and has not received a response. McPhee, for her part, has spoken openly about her life choices and her marriage to Foster — telling People in 2024 that neither of them dwells on their age gap. “We’re both very similar in this way,” she said. “I welcomed my 40s, and David didn’t have any conversations about, like, ‘Oh, I can’t believe I’m 75.’”

Whether she’ll have anything to say about Stause’s comments — or whether Stause is done saying her piece — remains an open question. But given how loudly the Selling Sunset star has been about all of this, don’t count on the silence lasting long.