Jimmy Kimmel had a parting gift for Spencer Pratt Tuesday night after the former reality star failed to make the runoff in Los Angeles’ mayoral race: a moving truck.
On Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel revisited Pratt’s campaign-trail vow that he would leave L.A. if either Mayor Karen Bass or City Councilmember Nithya Raman won the election. With Bass and Raman now headed to a November runoff—and Pratt finishing third—Kimmel decided to help him keep his word.
“So now we wait to hear from Spencer Pratt,” Kimmel told viewers, noting that Pratt had “clearly promised” to leave town if Bass or Raman prevailed.
The show then displayed a U-Haul-style truck decorated with an image of Pratt looking emotional and the message “Just defeated,” a not-especially-subtle sendoff.
Spencer Pratt said he’d leave L.A. if the election didn’t go his way. Jimmy Kimmel heard him—and decorated a U-Haul accordingly. pic.twitter.com/RdfGQeWEdC
— LateNighter (@latenightercom) June 10, 2026
Pratt, who has been uncharacteristically quiet since his defeat, answered Kimmel Wednesday morning on social media with a reminder that the joke landed against a real-world backdrop. Posting video of the remains of his Pacific Palisades home, which was destroyed in last year’s wildfires, Pratt wrote that Kimmel had overlooked one important detail: he didn’t need a moving truck because he had “nothing left to pack.”
It wasn’t the first time in recent days that Pratt and Kimmel have traded shots. Late last week, after Kimmel used his monologue to say of Pratt’s campaign, “We should be embarrassed,” Pratt resurfaced a screenshot of Kimmel’s old (and long-since apologized for) blackface Karl Malone impression from The Man Show.
Pratt entered the race after losing his home, turning an already improbable campaign into one of the stranger political stories of the year. For a stretch, it was also a surprisingly competitive one. A late May UC Berkeley-L.A. Times poll showed Bass, Raman and Pratt all bunched within a few points of one another, with Pratt close enough to make the possibility of a runoff berth seem less like a stunt than an actual electoral threat.
That didn’t happen. Raman ultimately edged past Pratt to claim the second runoff spot against Bass, leaving Pratt—and his supporters—to process a third-place finish that had already prompted online complaints about the result.
Kimmel has made Pratt’s campaign a recurring target in recent weeks, previously warning viewers against treating the Hills alum’s run as harmless celebrity theater. Tuesday’s bit was the victory lap version: less “please don’t elect this guy” than “please enjoy your complimentary exit signage.”
