The former reality television personality, whose insurgent campaign has gained unexpected traction, became the latest target of comedian Chelsea Handler’s disdain for non-establishment candidates. According to Fox News, Handler posted a video to social media on Friday, warning her followers, "Oh hi, if you're seeing this video, this is a reminder that a straight white male former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate."
The clip, which initially cycled through photos of Pratt, then flashed an image of President Donald Trump before Handler sneered, "Have we learned anything yet?"
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Handler, a reliable voice of progressive Hollywood, went further, declaring, "The bar is on the f---ing floor, people, and I need you to jump over it," before signing off with, "OK, thank you, have a nice day!" Within hours, Pratt fired back on X, refusing to accept the familiar liberal narrative that conservative-leaning outsiders are inherently unfit for office. "Most of you have probably never heard of Chelsea Handler, so here's an introduction!" he wrote, attaching a video of comedian Shane Gillis from the recent Netflix roast of Kevin Hart.
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In the clip, Gillis highlighted Handler’s own questionable associations, saying, "Chelsea Handler went to dinner at Jeffrey Epstein's house in 2010. That's just a fun one. You can look it up, there's articles. It wasn't like a big party, there was, like, seven people there. It was like, Prince Andrew and Woody Allen were there." Fox News Digital has reached out to Handler for comment, but the episode underscores a familiar double standard in elite circles that eagerly condemn populist candidates while glossing over their own entanglements.
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Handler has previously acknowledged visiting Epstein’s home multiple times, even as she positions herself as a moral arbiter against figures like Trump and now Pratt. While guest-hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in 2022, she admitted she had never been to Epstein’s island but did "accidentally" attend a dinner party at his residence after being brought along by Katie Couric. During that monologue and in subsequent interviews, she recounted dining with Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn — whom Allen first knew as the adopted daughter of his longtime partner, Mia Farrow — and joked that she asked the couple, "So how did you two meet?"
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As Hollywood elites mock his candidacy, Pratt’s campaign has also faced a barrage of questions about his personal life, particularly his living arrangements. The scrutiny intensified after reports suggested he was not actually residing in an Airstream trailer parked on the lot of his former California home, despite implying in a recent campaign ad that he was living there full-time.
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Pratt has not denied that he is currently staying elsewhere, but he insists critics are missing the larger point about the failures of Los Angeles leadership. "Hey guys, why don’t they wanna talk about why I need a hotel in the first place?" he wrote on X, directly blaming the city’s Democratic establishment. "Karen Bass let my home burn down. Also 6,000 of my neighbors. NBD."
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He argued that his opponents are fixated on optics because they cannot challenge his agenda for a city in decline. "Funny how they never attack my policy ideas," he wrote in a separate post. "They can only try to assassinate your character. They don’t wanna talk about my debate masterclass a week ago, they wanna talk about a reality show from a lifetime ago."
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Pratt framed the backlash as ideological, accusing critics of preferring the status quo over reform. "That’s because they want the continued decline of the city," he continued. "They are locked in an ideological death spiral and can’t shake it. Come at my policies or go sit back down on the back bench. I’m in the arena, son."
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Behind the social media skirmishes lies a more practical question: where Pratt is actually living as he campaigns to lead America’s second-largest city. Sources told TMZ that Pratt has been staying at the Hotel Bel-Air for the past month, while his wife and children have been living in Carpinteria, California, away from the political spotlight.
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The 42-year-old told the outlet that the Airstream had become unsafe amid rising tensions around his campaign, arguing that the luxury hotel’s "armed security" made it "the only option." He blamed the heightened hostility on his performance in the mayoral debate, saying, "The reality is the Ba--holes and Ramaniacs are a little bit whacko, and since I destroyed them in the debate, and am surging in the polls, they are getting increasingly desperate and hostile."
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Appearing on "TMZ Live" on Wednesday, Pratt reiterated that critics were deliberately distorting his situation to undermine his credibility. "I don't live at the hotel Bel Air. I don't live in the Airstream. I don't live in Santa Barbara. I don't have a house. They burned it down," he told the outlet, again pointing to the fire that destroyed his Pacific Palisades residence.
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Despite the loss of his physical home, Pratt insisted that the Palisades property remains his true residence and the center of his identity. "That is where I live, period," Pratt noted. "I don't need to sleep there every night. I don't need to go number two on that toilet. That is where I live."
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For a city battered by homelessness, crime, and mismanagement, Pratt’s defiant posture and willingness to confront Hollywood progressives and entrenched political leaders will likely resonate with voters tired of business as usual. Whether his unconventional candidacy can overcome the media’s fixation on his reality TV past and personal circumstances remains to be seen, but his message — that the political class has failed and that outsiders deserve a hearing — is clearly striking a nerve in Los Angeles.
