Earlier than Spencer Pratt turned actuality TV’s resident villain on “The Hills,” he says his first Hollywood fallout occurred years earlier, and it concerned Mary-Kate Olsen. In his new memoir, “The Man You Cherished to Hate: Confessions from a Actuality TV Villain,” Pratt rewinds to his pre-fame days rising up in Santa Monica, California, the place superstar classmates had been the norm. Amongst them had been Olsen and her then-boyfriend, Max Winkler, the son of actor Henry Winkler. In response to Spencer Pratt, his ambition to direct his personal movie, with out the cash to fund it, pushed him towards a transfer that might later make tabloid headlines and completely hyperlink his identify to Olsen’s.

In response to PEOPLE, Pratt writes that after Olsen and Winkler broke up, he seen what he described as a bed room “picture shrine” devoted to the previous little one star. He characterised the photographs as “younger love documented in European resorts, Hollywood events, stolen moments,” and claimed he steered they be taken down.

“I requested Max if I may take the pictures off his wall, you already know, for his therapeutic course of,” Pratt wrote. “He didn’t say no, so I took that to be a sure,” Pratt stated. He later returned to the Winkler household house, greeting Winkler’s well-known father on his manner in, and left with all of the pictures.

These pictures, Pratt admitted, had been finally bought to a photograph company for $50,000, a payday he says made him really feel “wealthy” on the time.

“Lower than per week later there it was, proof of my entrepreneurial genius staring again at me from the InTouch cowl at a gasoline station: ‘TEENS GONE WILD!’ throughout the duvet. A shot of Mary-Kate with a constellation of empties ‘LOOK AT ALL THE EMPTIES!’ and there I used to be within the background, frozen mid-shaka. I hadn’t bought that body. Another person was procuring, and now I wasn’t simply the vendor, I used to be a part of the merchandise. My face was now eternally linked to Mary-Kate Olsen’s supposed wild part, preserved in grocery retailer checkout traces throughout America.”

Regardless of the backlash, Pratt defended his choice years later within the memoir. “Once you actually give it some thought, it was a win-win,” he wrote. “Mary-Kate received her insurgent rebrand, Max received closure.”

Whereas neither Olsen twin has publicly commented on the picture scandal itself, Mary-Kate did convey up Pratt throughout a 2008 look on David Letterman’s present. “He doesn’t have a great mood. He walked out of some video games; he’d stroll off the sector,” she stated, recalling Pratt’s conduct whereas taking part in soccer at their college.

When Letterman requested in the event that they had been buddies, her response was transient. “No,” she replied merely.

Elsewhere within the memoir, Pratt claimed Olsen later referenced that soccer incident, writing that she “would weaponize that incident in opposition to me when she was feeling petty.”

Pratt’s renewed headlines over Mary-Kate Olsen additionally arrive at a second when he’s inserting himself again into the general public highlight for a completely completely different motive: Politics.

On Wednesday, January 7, the 42-year-old “The Hills” alum introduced he’s formally operating for mayor of Los Angeles. The next day, Pratt addressed his political affiliation, revealing that he’s a registered Republican and has no intention of adjusting events as his marketing campaign will get underway.

“I’ve been within the public eye most of my life, and there isn’t any dust yow will discover on me that hasn’t already been aired,” he wrote on Thursday, January 8. “Looks like the one factor folks don’t know is my voter registration, so right here go: I registered Republican in 2020 and by no means modified it.”