Spencer Pratt is now an actual political contender in Los Angeles, with a shot to unseat incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. However he’s additionally a veteran participant within the actuality TV house — and is aware of tips on how to parlay his penchant for getting consideration into an leisure deal.
Entrance of thoughts for Workforce Pratt proper now’s the June 2 major within the mayoral race. But, intriguingly, there’s additionally been scattered rumors about how his unconventional marketing campaign may be became TV content material that harkens again to his MTV days.
TMZ, which this week reported that Pratt resides on the luxurious Resort Bel-Air as a substitute of, as he’d claimed, a trailer on his burnt-out Pacific Palisades lot, adopted up that story with an merchandise on Could 14 that he’d “inked a deal” for a actuality sequence about his marketing campaign run and, ought to he be elected, time period in workplace.
The report noted that Pratt and spouse Heidi Montag had been partnering with Boardwalk Footage, explaining that “the production team is about to begin filming with Spencer, his wife Heidi Montag, and their kids throughout his political journey.”
Pratt’s spokesperson downplayed the venture in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter: “This is a non-starter as there is no signed contract. Nothing has been pitched, nothing has been filmed, there is no contact or deal of any sort in existence. Cameras have not been rolling and there are no plans at all for cameras to film.”
But THR has realized that Boardwalk Footage has already approached potential administrators concerning the deliberate present. It’s seasoned manufacturing agency whose credit embody Hulu’s Welcome to Wrexham and Netflix’s Cheer, in addition to the doc initiatives Val, The Black Godfather and aka Charlie Sheen.
Pratt gained fame because the villain on MTV’s actuality TV hit The Hills, alongside his then-girlfriend Montag, and later appeared on different unscripted reveals together with I’m a Superstar… Get Me Out of Right here! and Superstar Massive Brother. Earlier than The Hills, he produced the short-lived Fox actuality sequence The Princes of Malibu, which centered on the home lifetime of David Foster. (The music producer just lately hosted a fundraising occasion for the candidate, the place spouse Katharine McPhee serenaded Pratt with a rendition of Katharine McPhee’s “Simply the Best.”)
Amongst his earliest marketing campaign donors, in keeping with metropolis filings, is high unscripted producer Jeff Jenkins, identified for producing The Easy Life in addition to Preserving Up with the Kardashians and its offshoots.
When THR profiled Pratt final October about his public coverage outspokenness within the aftermath of the wildfires (which might later morph into his mayoral run) he expressed frustration together with his lack of ability in recent times to get greenlit once more. “Technically, we are still alive at Hulu,” he stated of a long-brewing venture, observing with hope that his avenging-hero character arc and life’s latest plot twists would possibly get him out of improvement hell. “I’m told by my fearless team at WME that not being passed on is a success nowadays.”
