Spencer Pratt defended his featuring of a trailer on his burned out Pacific Palisades property and telling viewers, “This is where I live.”
On Wednesday, TMZ reported that Pratt was not living in the Airstream trailer, but has been staying at the Hotel Bel-Air.
In an interview with the site, Pratt was asked by Harvey Levin about a campaign ad that “made it seem that you were living in that trailer. It was a high point of the commercial. But you’re at the Hotel Bel-Air.”
“That is where I will live until I have a new house,” Pratt said. “The Airstream is a temporary facility. A hotel is a temporary facility. Where my kids are in Santa Barbara right now is a temporary housing. This is where I live. This is where they burned my house down.”
He added, “I don’t live at the Hotel Bel-Air. I don’t live in the Airstream. I don’t live in Santa Barbara. I don’t have a house. They burned it down.”
He said that his security team advised him not to stay in the Airstream after he received threats.
Much of Pratt’s campaign has focused on the devastating fires in the Palisades last year and has attacked the response of Mayor Karen Bass.
Meanwhile, with less than three weeks before the Los Angeles mayoral primary, candidates are taking in some late-in-the-game contributions.
Pratt was feted earlier this week at the home of David Foster and Katharine McPhee, with the latter singing a song with words tied to the current campaign, per video posted by One America News Network’s Alicia Summers. (A hat tip to Vanity Fair).
Following last week’s mayoral debate between Bass, Councilwoman Nithya Raman and Pratt, a new poll from Emerson College showed the reality star in second place, with 22% support, to Bass’ 30%. Raman drew 19%. The poll is of 350 voters with a margin of error of 5.2%.
The top two finishers will go on to the general election if no candidate clears 50%.
Pratt has drawn extensive media attention since the debate, particularly in conservative media. But he recently drew a contribution from Haim Saban, who has been a longtime Democratic fundraiser and donor known for his steadfast support of Israel. Saban gave $1,800 and his wife, Cheryl, gave the same amount, with contributions dated from last Friday. Other recent donors include Justine Bateman, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Brett Ratner and Lucian Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group.
