Spencer Pratt announced his run for mayor of Los Angeles yesterday … but Karen Bass‘ team doesn’t seem worried.

As we reported … the 42-year-old reality star announced his new mayoral bid on the first anniversary of the Pacific Palisades wildfire, which destroyed more than 6,000 structures — including the house Pratt shared with wife Heidi Montag and their two sons.

Since the tragedy, Spencer has engaged in fiery exchanges with California politicians, encouraging fans to call for him to run for office. While he’s answered the call … not everyone seems to think it’s a good idea.

Mayor Karen Bass’s campaign strategist Douglas Herman tells TMZ … “It’s no shock that in advance of his imminent book release, a reality TV ‘villain’ who once staged a fake divorce to boost ratings and spent the last summer spewing post-fire misinformation and disinformation to pump up his social media following, would now announce he’s running for Mayor.”

Remember … Spencer and Heidi admitted to faking a split in order to boost their careers after their income from “The Hills” was reportedly drying up.

Spencer’s book, “The Guy You Loved to Hate: Confessions From a Reality TV Villain,” is expected to hit shelves and tablets January 27. He announced his book tour 3 weeks ago with dates in New Jersey and Los Angeles.

While Spencer has gone after several California lawmakers, he’s perhaps attacked none harder than Governor Gavin Newsom. The governor’s office called Spencer a “C-list reality TV star” after he attacked Newsom for a controversial ordinance.

Newsom’s office insisted the governor had nothing to do with the bill, which would have allowed low-income properties to be built on burned land in the Palisades, but the proposed legislation never went into effect anyway.

In an interview with KABC-TV Tuesday, Bass said she’s always thinking about the Palisades, and she will not rest “until the Palisades looks like it did before January 7, 2025.”

She also commented on the “They Let Us Burn” rally where Spencer made his mayoral announcement, saying, “I think there are people who are profiting off this, and that is what I find very despicable. Intentionally putting out misinformation. Intentionally profiting from social media, book deals, etc. I think that’s unfortunate.”

Richard Dimitri, a comedian and actor who worked with the likes of Michael Keaton and Richard Dreyfuss in the 1970s and ’80s, has died. He was 83.

His family announced Dimitri’s death Wednesday in an online obituary … he died December 18 in L.A. with his wife Christianne by his side. He had suffered from heart and lung illnesses for years.

Dimitri was born in Yonkers, New York, and started working Off-Broadway in the early 1960s. He taught acting at Queen’s College City University in New York before moving to Los Angeles in 1975, according to his obit.

Dimitri was 83.

Meghan Trainor‘s all about that bass — no Tisdale Treble — cracking a joke about the alleged drama surrounding her mom group in a new social media post.

The singer-songwriter took to TikTok Thursday to break her silence on the online fervor surrounding her and several of her fellow moms … tapping away furiously on a glowing keyboard in the clip.

She wrote on the post, “me finding out about the apparent mom group drama” … though anyone taking the post too seriously should turn their volume up … because her track “Still Don’t Care” plays over the whole dang thing. Trainor captioned the post with what look like tea emojis … so, clearly she’s drinking up all the hottest gossip.

ICYMI … a piece Ashley wrote about a falling out with her mom group landed in The Cut on January 1 … and got online sleuths claiming she’s referred to a star-studded friend group featuring Trainor, Mandy Moore, and Hilary Duff. Hilary Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, even seemed to confirm the rumors by mocking the article on Instagram days after it was released.

However, a rep for Tisdale told us her piece wasn’t even about the famous mom group … another good reason for Trainor not to give a you-know-what about Tisdale’s writing.