Many celebrities in Hollywood are calling out Interview Magazine for giving Spencer Pratt a platform amid his run to be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Interview, a magazine currently run by Rihanna‘s former stylist Mel Ottenberg, has profiled some of the biggest celebs in the world over the years, often having celebs interview each other. The mag was co-founded by Andy Warhol back in 1969.
Spencer‘s profile, titled “Spencer Pratt Takes Us Around the City He Thinks He Can Save,” features photos of him in Los Angeles locations that mean a lot to him, including his alma mater USC, his favorite restaurant Don Antonio’s and Dodger’s Stadium.
“Love him or hate him, Spencer Pratt is having a moment. We asked him to take us around the city he wants to run and share the places that made him fall in love with it,” the mag wrote.
Many celebs are leaving comments on the Interview Magazine and Mel Ottenberg pages on Instagram, showing their distaste for the article.
- Andy Cohen: “This is for INTERVIEW???”
- Sophia Bush: “EW”
- Tinashe: “Gross.”
- Aquaria: “I feel like we could have brainstormed a handful of more suitable concepts here.”
- Janicza Bravo: “Girl…”
- Aly Michalka: “No”
- Sally Hershberger: “Hell no!!!!!! What a downgrade for Interview Magazine.”
- Nicky Bell: “Mel…………….”
- Alexandra Shipp: Left five tomato emojis
- Sophia Bush: “WHY are you platforming a grifter who is taking mostly out of state money, and using AI Angelenos in his ads because no locals want to be in them!? He’s pitching a reality show about this for gods sake, he wants to profit off of office, and not serve a damn soul but himself. Shame.”
- Tinashe: “Delete this”
- Tyler Oakley: “this sucks.”
- Ella Emhoff: “It’s a no from me.”
- Justin Tranter: “No no nope nah.”
- Clayton Hawkins: “Booooooooooooooooooooooo.”
- Mia Moretti: “No thank you.”
- Harry Lambert: “This is disappointing!”
- IO: “Interview platforming MAGA is a real bottom”
- Hunter Abrams: “DELETE THIS NOW.”
- Ira Madison III: “You guys suck for this.”
Andy Maher, a producer on the CBS shows All Rise and East New York, wrote in a post on his Instagram account that for Interview Magazine to platform someone like Pratt “in a lighthearted feature designed to humanize him and make this campaign feel amusing or unserious seems like a reckless lapse in judgement. There are real world consequences to treating a dangerous political opportunist as content. But Angelenos are the ones who will live with the consequences of normalizing this nonsense.”
Buzzfeed’s senior editor Brian Galindo wrote, “As an Angeleno, I second a lot of these feelings. While the city has many serious problems to resolve, having someone with no experience and a possible ulterior motive is only going to make things worse.”
Spencer does have support from quite a few celebs in Hollywood.
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