Reality TV turned political sideshow this week after Chrishell Stause unloaded on Katharine McPhee in a fiery TikTok comment tied to Spencer Pratt’s long-shot Los Angeles mayor ambitions.
The drama kicked off after influencer Jordy Cray posted a video breaking down McPhee’s dating history, including her controversial relationship and eventual marriage to legendary producer David Foster, who is 35 years older than her.
Stause didn’t exactly scroll past quietly.
“One day she will find her real inner confidence,” the Selling Sunset star commented, “but it won’t come until after she is disregarded enough times by the problematic men she backs.”
Then came the kill shot.
“An insecure woman will steal your man, and give the worst advice.”
Cold. Direct. No publicist polish anywhere near it.
McPhee, now 42, married Foster, 76, in 2019 after years of headlines surrounding both her personal life and the producer’s long history of high-profile relationships. The TikTok video also revisited McPhee’s 2013 cheating scandal, when she was photographed kissing Smash director Michael Morris while still married to actor Nick Cokas. Morris himself was married at the time to actress Mary McCormack.
McPhee later addressed the controversy in a 2016 interview, saying she had “no regrets” about that chapter of her life.
Meanwhile, the real source of Stause’s irritation appears to be McPhee and Foster publicly backing Pratt’s bizarre leap from reality television villain to aspiring politician.
Earlier this month, McPhee performed at a fundraiser for Pratt hosted inside the couple’s Brentwood Park home. Foster played piano while McPhee serenaded Pratt with a rewritten version of Tina Turner’s “The Best,” taking shots at current Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and councilmember Nithya Raman in the process.
At one point, McPhee reportedly forgot Raman’s name mid-song and called her “Cynthia,” which pretty much tells you everything about the level of political seriousness in the room.
Stause has already made it clear she wants no part of the reality-star-to-government pipeline.
“NO MORE reality star politicians PLEASE!” she wrote on Threads back in April. “I like him on TV! NOT in the government tho.”
Fair point. America already ran that experiment once and everybody still looks exhausted from it.
Even some of Pratt’s former MTV co-stars seem reluctant to entertain the campaign. When Lauren Conrad was recently asked whether she’d vote for Pratt, her response was a masterclass in icy California disengagement.
“I’m not a resident of Los Angeles,” she said.
Asked if she’d buried the hatchet with Pratt since The Hills, Conrad shrugged it off entirely.
“You’re asking me about people I haven’t spoken to in decades.”
And somewhere in Los Angeles, Spencer Pratt is probably turning all of this into campaign merch already.
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Last modified: May 21, 2026
