Jonathan “FoodGod” Cheban is rooting for fellow reality TV star Spencer Pratt to win the Los Angeles mayoral election.
“I’m ready to almost move back to L.A, because I’m tired of this weather,” Cheban, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Vulture Reality Masterminds Celebration on Thursday, May 7. “If he wins, it will be really amazing.”
Pratt, 42, announced his candidacy in January on the one-year anniversary of the deadly wildfires that swept across Southern California. (Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, lost their home in the blaze.)
“I’m desperate for him to win because I’m tired of going to L.A. and seeing a ghost town,” Cheban, who currently lives in New York City, told Us. “It just feels like it dies every time, and if he wins, I think that’s going to change everything that’s, like, the heartbeat that they need out there.”
The food influencer continued, “If he doesn’t win, I mean, it can’t get any worse, you know what I mean? So, it could only go up or go all the way down.”
Pratt has been climbing in the polls ahead of election day.
“The only way I see God letting my parents’ house burn down and my house burn down is that God knows it’s the only way to turn me against a system that lets this happen to tens of thousands of people,” the Hills alum previously said in his Us cover story of running for office. “In a best-case scenario, I would have helped at least 10,000 people to get 70 percent of what they got taken from them. That would be poetic.”
According to Pratt, he is hoping that an electoral victory will provide “justice” to other L.A. locals.
“Winning the mayor’s race will be a victory for truth and transparency, which is what I’ve been fighting for this whole year,” he stressed to Us. “The end goal is the same: to shine a light into the darkness.”
While Pratt’s bid for the mayor’s office has divided many celebrities who reside in the City of Angels, Cheban is all for championing his fellow reality TV stars.
“I love the reality TV icons because the influencers have kind of taken over, and I’m trying to push it back for reality TV,” Cheban said on Thursday. “I’m literally doing a post tonight [about] how reality stars are so much more fun than influencers. They’re raw, and it’s a whole different breed of people. They’re, like, a different breed of humans [who] give their all, and it’s not just cuts and voice-overs, it’s the real thing. … I hope it gets bigger instead of getting smaller.”
