Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | May 28, 2026
In 2013, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag were doing what they do best: Anything and everything for attention as their “fame” was running on fumes. The two were long past their heyday on The Hills and reduced to making paid appearances at Vegas strip clubs as seen above.
During that time, Spencer leaned heavily into an old showbiz adage that worked gangbusters for the Kardashians: All publicity is good publicity. If that involved a crazy story about how he and Heidi blew through their life savings because they thought the 2012 Mayan apocalypse was real, so be it.
Via Huffpost:
“Here’s some advice, definitely do not spend your money thinking asteroids are coming. But the world didn’t end,” Pratt told OK! of the apocalypse cash-purge. “I would give my friends $15,000 for their birthday. Just cash. I would buy people cars. Every valet I met got a couple of hundred pounds tip. I would pay people $200 just to open doors for us.”Montag and Pratt also revealed their doomsday misstep to the Mirror, saying that they purposefully decided to spend their money on things like an armored truck and designer handbags because they thought the end was near.
Did Speidi really empty their bank account because of an apocalyptic prediction? It’s tempting to say yes given Spencer’s well-documented foray into crystals. That does scream “sucker,” but the most likely scenario is he saw a chance to put their names in headlines while they weaseled their way onto Celebrity Big Brother. A reliable source he is not.
Naturally, Spencer didn’t plan on that story coming back to bite him in the butt. (I mentioned the crystals, right?) We’re dealing with a guy who was thinking about the next news cycle, not the next 13 years where he’s somehow in the running to become mayor of Los Angeles. Unfortunately for Spencer, someone on Jimmy Kimmel’s writing team remembered the Mayan apocalypse incident, and the late night host went to work pointing out that maybe the city shouldn’t trust its billion-dollar budget to an idiot who blew through millions because of an ancient prophecy.
If Spencer wants to refute that allegation, well, he’s more than happy to admit that it was a made-up story to gin up publicity, which will look really good following his recent claim that he’s “cool with [the] Crips and Bloods.” Clearly, this is a changed man who should be handed the keys to the city. No bag of tricks here.
