{"id":357474,"date":"2026-06-12T06:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:42:22","slug":"california-governor-candidate-steve-hilton-teases-role-for-spencer-pratt-in-his-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357474\/","title":{"rendered":"California Governor Candidate Steve Hilton Teases Role for Spencer Pratt in His Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has teased a role for Spencer Pratt<\/a> following the reality star\u2019s failed bid to become Los Angeles mayor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be honored to have him in any kind of role,\u201d Hilton, 56, revealed during a Thursday, June 11, appearance on Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two candidates were on the same California ballot in two separate primary races on June 2 \u2014 and both were endorsed<\/a> by President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the gubernatorial primary, King advanced to face Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra in a November runoff election.<\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt Has \u2018No Plans\u2019 for Reality Show If Elected Mayor of Los Angeles, Rep Says<\/a><\/p>\n

California\u2019s election laws require that a runoff election occurs unless any candidate receives more than 50 percent in the primary. In the mayoral race, incumbent Karen Bass failed to meet the threshold to win outright but led the race with 34.30 percent.<\/p>\n

With Bass, 72, advancing to the November runoff, all eyes turned to who would finish in second place. Despite a strong early showing for Pratt, 42, he quickly fell behind<\/a> L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman as mail-in ballots were counted.<\/p>\n

On Monday, June 8, multiple media organizations officially called the race for second place for Raman, 44. (Per L.A. Vote<\/a>, Raman finished with 29 percent while Pratt trailed in third with 25.52 percent.)<\/p>\n

During his appearance on Fox News, Hilton suggested that Pratt could be useful in a role focused on recovery from the 2025 Palisades Fire. (Pratt made the loss of his and wife Heidi Montag\u2019s home in the fire a rallying cry for his mayoral campaign.)<\/p>\n

\"GettyImages-2278612108<\/p>\n

Spencer Pratt in May 2026. Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201c[I think he could be] particularly focused on the areas he spent so much time looking into and developing positive plans for,\u201d Hilton suggested. \u201cI don\u2019t know where he\u2019s at. I haven\u2019t spoken to him since the election result but of course he made a huge impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilton added, \u201c[Pratt] gave hope in Los Angeles and I actually think it\u2019s a travesty that we have this top two system, which meant that in L.A., there\u2019s not the same chance for change as we are now going to have statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pratt has been uncharacteristically quiet since he was officially ruled out of the mayoral runoff earlier this week. While his campaign gained a foothold with provocative memes and combative statements, Pratt initially tried to calm anger among his supporters when he fell behind Raman in vote totals.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks, we’re dealing with a fraction of a percentage point difference; there are still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let’s git-r-dun,\u201d he tweeted<\/a> on June 8.<\/p>\n

Jenna Bush Hager Gets \u2018Laguna Beach\u2019 Cast\u2019s Reaction to Spencer Pratt\u2019s Bid for L.A. Mayor<\/a><\/p>\n

The former Hills star later posted a cryptic photo of a sitting duck<\/a> on Tuesday, June 9. His only other statement came after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel offered to buy him a U-haul<\/a> since Pratt previously threatened to move out of Los Angeles<\/a> if he lost the race.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, June 10, Pratt shared footage of the wreckage<\/a> of his burned home, along with clapping back, \u201cJimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don\u2019t need a U-Haul\u2026I have nothing left to pack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has teased a role for Spencer Pratt following the reality star\u2019s failed bid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,14019,112187,4132,51488,80054,27448,43125,17382],"class_list":["post-357474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-fox-news","tag-gubernatorial-primary","tag-karen-bass","tag-los-angeles-mayor","tag-nithya-raman","tag-runoff-election","tag-spencer-pratt","tag-steve-hilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}