Spencer Pratt, running for mayor of Los Angeles, released a spoof music video presenting himself as the “Prince of Bel-Air” while responding to claims he stayed at the Hotel Bel-Air rather than living in an Airstream after his Pacific Palisades home burned dow
Spencer Pratt’s latest bid to become mayor of Los Angeles has arrived with a soundtrack and a crown.
In a spoof video built around the theme music from “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. ” the former “Hills” star dubs himself the (temporary) Prince of Bel Air. turning a personal housing crisis into campaign comedy.. In the clip. Pratt drives around Los Angeles with an Airstream attached to his pickup truck after portraying himself as forced to abandon his home when it burned down in 2025.
He begins with a rhyme about his time at his Pacific Palisades home. saying: “In West Los Angeles. Palisades. in my backyard is where I spent most of my days. ” then continues as he tells the story of feeding humming birds and avoiding “bums outside of the school.” Pratt adds that “a couple politicians. who were up to no good. started making trouble in my neighborhood. ” before claiming the fire followed by a push to move: “I got in one little fire and my mom got scared. and she said you are moving in with [TMZ founder] Harvey Levin in Bel Air.”
Later in the video. Pratt revisits the grounds of the burned-down home. rapping. “I pulled out from my lot about 7 or 8/And I yelled to the rubble. yo home. smell ya later!” In an under-construction neighborhood. he spray paints “They let us burn!” on a barricade wall. before pulling up to the curb of Hotel Bel-Air.
At the hotel, Pratt frames his move as arrival and entitlement, adding, “I moved to my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit at my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air.” The video also appears to be aimed at undercutting a claim that Pratt was staying at the hotel instead of living in the Airstream.
That dispute traces back to a recent report that said Pratt. rather than using an Airstream trailer he suggested he was living in after his Pacific Palisades home burned down in 2025. had been paying for a room at the five-star Hotel Bel-Air for at least a month.. Pratt’s campaign leaned into the Airstream narrative earlier. including in an April campaign ad where he showed luxury homes of rival political figures and then stood in front of his Airstream on the grounds of where his former home sat.
Pratt’s response fits a broader pattern he has kept front and center in his pitch for office: he uses blunt messaging and has repeatedly criticized California’s Democratic leaders and what he calls a “fundamentally broken” local government.. The way he communicates has drawn support from some quarters.. Meghan McCain wrote that Pratt is the “blueprint for how my generation of older millennials needs to communicate and present their ideas and campaign messaging when running for office.”
The human stakes of the story are hard to miss: it’s not just political branding. but a depiction of losing a home in 2025. then turning relocation into a public. performative argument.. The same campaign that promises a candidate’s “this is where I live” moment is now being used again to challenge the hotel-stay claim—first by portraying life with the Airstream. then by showing up at Hotel Bel-Air and crowning the narrative as a kind of rightful reign.
Pratt, a father of two married to co-star Heidi Montag, announced his mayoral campaign in January.. His campaign has received celebrity backing from Katherine McPhee Foster, her husband David Foster, and actor James Woods.. He and other challengers will face incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the nonpartisan primary election on June 2.
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