READ MEMOIR

“The level of crime and the way the city is being handled right now is just unacceptable for the amount of taxes people are paying in this state. We have people living in tents next to billion-dollar developments, and the current leadership just seems content to let it happen while they collect their paychecks and wait for the next election cycle to make more empty promises.”

“I'm literally running for Mayor of Los Angeles because I look at this city and I see what it could be versus what it is currently. I've lived here my whole life and watched the decline, and I think it's time we stop putting career politicians in charge of a city that needs a real visionary and some actual energy to fix the streets and the homelessness crisis that everyone else is ignoring.”

“People didn't realize back then that I was playing a character because that's what the show needed to survive the ratings game. I looked at the metrics and the drama, and I realized if I wasn't the bad guy, we weren't going to have a show, so I leaned into it one hundred percent and became the guy everyone loved to hate just to keep the production going and keep the checks coming in.”

“The game has completely changed from when Heidi and I were on The Hills because now everyone has a camera and a platform in their pocket. Back then, you needed the paparazzi and the tabloids to build a brand or get a story out, but today you can go straight to the audience on TikTok, which is why I'm so focused on digital platforms for this campaign.”

“My book 'The Guy You Loved to Hate' is really the first time I’m laying it all out there without the edit of a producer or a network executive. I wanted to show people the actual mechanics of how reality television worked during that era and how it shaped the person I had to become to survive in an industry that's designed to chew people up and spit them out.”