Gallery Books To Publish Memoir From Spencer Pratt ’The Guy You Loved To Hate’ January 2026

Gallery Books will publish THE GUY YOU LOVED TO HATE: CONFESSIONS OF A REALITY TV VILLAIN, from reality star Spencer Pratt on January 27, 2025. 

In his memoir, Spencer Pratt, once branded as America’s most hated reality TV villain, recounts his tumultuous journey from creating his own reality show at 21 to becoming a notorious antagonist on MTV’s The Hills, and the fallout from his obsession with celebrity. From creating headline-grabbing drama to masterminding off-camera intrigue, Spencer became a magnet for attention and the center of reality TV success in the early aughts. Together with his wife Heidi Montag, they formed "Speidi" a two-headed tabloid machine worth $2 million a year. While Spencer’s orchestrated efforts drew record viewership and kept him and Heidi in the headlines, the addictive nature of fame and the negative attention took a toll, causing Spencer’s personal life to unravel and lead to not only financial ruin, but a public fall from grace.

However, after losing nearly everything in the devastating 2025 Palisades wildfires, Spencer and Heidi found unexpected support and redemption through social media, transforming their narrative from infamous personalities to beloved survivors. 

THE GUY YOU LOVED TO HATE reveals the untold truth behind the spectacle – a darkly comedic, unflinching, and often surreal confessional from a TV villain who’s finally broken character for good.

About publishing his memoir Pratt said, "I’ve been misrepresented for most of my life—and honestly? That worked for a while. But the real story is way more interesting than the fiction, which is why I’m finally telling it, no holds barred, in my own words. I poured everything I have into this book, sharing all the secrets, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to share it with you.”

Senior Editor Molly Gregory acquired US, Canada, and Open Market rights from Eve Attermann at WME and Kyell Thomas at Octagon. Simon & Schuster Audio will simultaneously publish the audiobook, which will be read by the author. 

Spencer Pratt is one of reality TV’s original villains and an icon of millennial fame culture. Best known for The Hills, he continues to evolve as a media personality—appearing on Celebrity Big Brother, The Hills: New Beginnings, and going viral on TikTok for his crystal hauls, hummingbird obsession, absurd burrito stunts, and raw documentation of his family’s harrowing experience during the Pacific Palisades wildfire. Despite the chaos, he’s outlasted most of his reality TV peers—and somehow, he’s still not done. He lives in Southern California with Heidi and their two children with an unrelenting focus on rebuilding their lives in the Palisades. 

Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, is an imprint dedicated to publishing a variety of must-read books on a wide array of topics. Launched in 2010, Gallery is designed to showcase established voices and introduce emerging new ones—in both fiction and nonfiction. Gallery Books is the publisher of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears, Taste by Stanley Tucci, Straight Shooter by Stephen A. Smith, The Right Call by Sally Jenkins, Making It So by Patrick Stewart, My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy by Clint Hill, The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren, The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer and Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell, among others.

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