Whether they love him or hate him, there are some very famous people in Spencer Pratt’s world.
Pratt, Us Weekly’s latest cover star, opened up about some of the name-drops in his upcoming book, The Guy You Loved to Hate (out January 27), revealing some of his most A-list interactions didn’t even make the final edit.
“Growing up, my best friend — and I was so young I didn’t even appreciate it — was Meryl Streep‘s daughter Mamie Gummer. I was on set multiple nights with her for Death Becomes Her, which now I look back, I’m like, ‘What a dope movie!’” Pratt tells Us. “My other close friend was the director [Jim Abrahams] son Joe Abrahams, so I was on the set of all the Hot Shots movies with Charlie Sheen when he was all buff. I walked on the set of Armageddon. Growing up all the time in the kitchen at my buddy Zach’s house was just Adam Sandler at peak Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison.”
Pratt was also friends with Malcolm McDowell’s son Charlie. “I didn’t even realize who Malcolm McDowell was with Clockwork Orange until later. … I was like, ‘His dad’s a character.’ And I later see Clockwork Orange. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God!’” he recalls.
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When Pratt was a little bit older and in college at USC, he met a then-aspiring actor named Ryan Gosling.
“We hung out a lot,” he says, adding that there were stories not included in the book out of precaution. “We were a crew, and I think he learned a lot for his future roles from my posse.”
While Pratt admits he got “less connected to the real Hollywood,” which he calls “a whole other tier,” when he started his reality TV journey, big time stars have been back in his orbit with his Palisades fire relief efforts.
“I was at dinner [a few] weeks ago and one of the biggest movie stars in the world sat down and goes, ‘Can I sit down with you?’ And without even me saying yes — to Heidi and I, just sits down and pumps me up for 20 minutes straight, knowing every detail about everything,” Pratt recalls to Us. “This movie star does not follow me. So secretly there’s real, A-list movie stars that are like, ‘Yes, Spencer, call these people out!’”
Keeping scrolling to read more about Pratt’s celebrity mentions in his book and beyond:
Kris Jenner
The Kardashian matriarch once pitched him an idea for a reality show starring her daughters and then-husband Caitlyn Jenner (Brody’s dad), Pratt claims. He declined with “the kind of confidence only available to people about to make the worst decisions of their lives,” he writes.
Ryan Gosling
When Pratt was in college at USC, his neighbor was the future Oscar nominee. “I had a crew that he was a part of,” Pratt says, noting that they didn’t stay in touch. Years later, he ran into Gosling at The Standard hotel. “I swear to God, he ran when he saw me,” Pratt says with a laugh.
David Foster
In the early 2000s, Pratt thought Brody Jenner’s stepdad made “elevator music.” Now he calls the legendary producer the “G.O.A.T” and recalls spending time with a then-unknown Michael Bublé, who would perform whenever Pratt asked: “I was like, ‘Oh, my God — you’re so good!’”
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Mary-Kate Olsen
While attending Crossroads School in Santa Monica, Pratt was friends with Henry Winkler’s son, Max, who briefly dated the Row designer in 2002. Pratt later sold photos of the couple. “Here I was, 20 years old, turning my buddy’s romantic misery into startup capital,” he writes.
Nicole Richie
Shortly before The Hills, Jenner dated Richie, whom Pratt calls “one of the homies.” He tells Us he had his first panic attack at Richie’s condo. The Simple Life star thought a delivery person might have tampered with their food, and Pratt “got it in my head that I was poisoned,” he says.
James Franco
Pratt says the actor has expressed interest in directing a film version of The Guy You Loved to Hate. “We spent time going through it when I was writing it,” he says, adding that although he trusts Franco to cast it, his top choice to play him is Golden Globe winner Austin Butler.
Scott Disick
Despite joking that he’s no longer in the same “tax bracket” as the Kardashians, Pratt says Kourtney’s ex surprised him after his house burned down: “The first person that DMed me a full paragraph was Scott. I can’t remember what it said, but it was something very nice.”
Taylor Swift
For more than a year, Pratt posted videos of himself dancing to “Look What You Made Me Do,” and the superstar noticed. They met in 2018, and he’s maintained a spot on her PR merch mailing list. “Hopefully it’s a large wedding, so I get an invite,” he says about her I do’s with Travis Kelce.
