{"id":219796,"date":"2026-01-30T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/spencer-pratt-reveals-how-simon-cowell-inspired-his-villain-persona\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:01:17","slug":"spencer-pratt-reveals-how-simon-cowell-inspired-his-villain-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/spencer-pratt-reveals-how-simon-cowell-inspired-his-villain-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Pratt reveals how Simon Cowell inspired his &#8216;villain&#8217; persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-01-30\" datetime=\"1769788877\" pubdate=\"\">30 January 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/spencer-pratt\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,spencer-pratt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spencer Pratt<\/a> based his &#8220;villainous&#8221; reality TV persona on Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Spencer Pratt has opened up on being influenced by Simon Cowell<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old reality star &#8211; who rose to fame on The Hills and has appeared on the likes of the UK&#8217;s Celebrity Big Brother and the US version of I&#8217;m A Celebrity&#8230; Get Me Out Of Here! alongside his wife Heidi Montag &#8211; has reflected on the way he&#8217;s been portrayed on television.<\/p>\n<p>He told Extra: &#8220;[Brody Jenner&#8217;s then-stepfather] David Foster [told] me to be like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/simon-cowell\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,simon-cowell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Cowell<\/a> of reality television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the time, I didn\u2019t know who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/simon-cowell\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,simon-cowell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Cowell<\/a> was since I didn\u2019t watch X Factor, but David was like, \u2018He\u2019s the best&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I went sideways with it obviously. He got to be the villain because he was being honest and truthful about people\u2019s talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSpencer &#8211; who insisted he has no &#8220;regrets&#8221; over his persona &#8211; admitted for him, the audience didn&#8217;t &#8220;connect&#8221; his behaviour with anything.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe insisted he has no plans to leave the villainous persona behind, if the money is right.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe explained: &#8220;If a big movie wants to make me &#8211; it was always for business. I&#8217;ve now said no to shows that want that when the cheque doesn&#8217;t equate that behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I at least value &#8211; I&#8217;ll play entertainment, I have bills to pay so I&#8217;m not ever gonna say [no].<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My modern version of a villain would be, sometimes the truth hurts people. I would be on camera, very truthful.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Good producers will always tell you, for reality TV, if you think it, you say it. A lot of people don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite his reputation, Spencer insisted his only regrets were not taking his career to another level.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: &#8220;Obviously, it would be to do better, be a better TV personality, end up like a Kardashian somehow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nHe previously opened up on his decisions early in his career, when he had a chance to feature more as Brody Jenner&#8217;s friend, manager and publicist, despite his acting ambitions at the time<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told PEOPLE magazine: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think about it, and that moment did change my life forever because nobody ever took me seriously again. &#8220;Nowadays, there&#8217;s a Kim [Kardashian] who has been able to be a reality personality and an actor.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Good for her, you know, but that was impossible [back then], so I kind of just accepted what I got into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/spencer-pratt-reveals-simon-cowell-inspired-villain-persona-1436924.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 January 2026 Spencer Pratt based his &#8220;villainous&#8221; reality TV persona on Simon Cowell. Spencer Pratt has opened up on being influenced by Simon Cowell The 42-year-old reality star &#8211; who rose to fame on The Hills and has appeared on the likes of the UK&#8217;s Celebrity Big Brother and the US version of I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2303,3901,641,3900],"class_list":{"0":"post-219796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-david-foster","9":"tag-heidi-montag","10":"tag-simon-cowell","11":"tag-spencer-pratt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}