The Los Angeles mayoral candidate claims the Academy Award winners are among his celebrity backers.

Spencer Pratt claims Leo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx privately supported him for mayor: ‘I have multiple witnesses’

The Los Angeles mayoral candidate claims the Academy Award winners are among his celebrity backers.

By Kathleen Perricone

May 27, 2026 4:39 p.m. ET

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- Spencer Pratt, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, claims Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx have privately pledged their support of his campaign.

- "It was an out-of-body experience," he said of receiving their stamp of approval.

- In the latest poll, Pratt has 22 percent of the vote, narrowly closing in on incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass.

Spencer Pratt's political endorsements are becoming a who's who of Hollywood.

The reality star is currently running for mayor of Los Angeles, proving to be a formidable dark horse in the race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and Councilperson Nithya Raman. With the primary election just days away on June 2, the latest poll conducted by Emerson College shows Pratt has surged ahead of Raman's 19 percent of the vote with 22 percent and is gaining on Bass is polling at 30 percent.

Pratt in a televised debate with Mayor Karen Bass and Councilperson Nithya Raman.

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Among his public celebrity backers are *The Hills* alums Brody Jenner, Kristin Cavallari, and Audrina Patridge, actor Dennis Quaid, rapper Big Sean, 16-time Grammy-winning songwriter David Foster, socialite Paris Hilton, and Los Angeles Lakers CEO Jeanie Buss.

But there are two Hollywood heavyweights that Pratt claims have privately pledged their support.

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"Usually I don't name-drop, but I had two of my favorite people ever support me. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx both said, 'Please, Mr. Mayor, we want these streets safe again,'" Pratt tells *Us Weekly* in a new interview. "If their reps try to deny this happened, I have multiple witnesses. It was an out-of-body experience."

Representatives for DiCaprio and Foxx did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

Pratt, who's been married to *The Hills* costar Heidi Montag since 2008, jumped into the mayoral race in response to losing his family home in the 2025 Palisades Fire, which destroyed 6,837 structures including historic landmarks, churches, schools, business blocks, and the Palisades branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.

Pratt hosted a 'block party' in Los Angeles on May 20.

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"When I announced [my run] in front of thousands of fire victims, everyone cheered so much that it kicked off a new path of being taken seriously," revealed the former reality star and owner of Pratt Daddy Crystals. "And as I go to all of these communities and meet with community leaders, they just have so much faith in me."

Despite not having any political experience, Pratt did receive a political science degree from the University of Southern California. His mayoral platform focuses on prioritizing public safety, enforcing fiscal integrity from City Hall, empowering small businesses, and approaching homelessness with a "treatment-led recovery model that addresses mental illness and addiction."

Pratt and wife Heidi Montag on April 29 in Los Angeles.

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"My No. 1 qualification is I'm not corrupt," he told *Us Weekly*. "I have humility in that I know that I've never run a city, so I'm going to put a team around me of the smartest, most talented people. We need to bring in people who aren't just bureaucratic city-entrenched people. We need people from the private sector who are running major corporations with bigger budgets to advise and help us become a more profitable city. My biggest skill is being an actual outsider."

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Raman, a member of the left-leaning Democratic Socialists of America, has accused her competitor of being "a big MAGA person," which Pratt denied to the magazine.

"I'm not either party. I'm a centrist; my party is common sense," he clarified. "Everything I say is nonpartisan. Spencer Pratt is Spencer Pratt, and he represents all of Los Angeles."

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