As if there weren't enough problems in the Middle East ... TMZ has learned Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are about to get on a plane bound for Saudi Arabia!
Spencer tells TMZ, their bad ass friend -- MMA fighter "King" Kevin Casey -- will be throwing down at the Abu Dhabi Martial Arts Tournament on April 14 ... and they'll be ringside cheering him on.
Spencer adds, “Heidi and I are both so excited to visit the Middle East and even more thrilled to watch King Kevin Casey smash his opponents.”
Spencer Pratt's chicken wing rap has a leg to stand on after all -- because KFC just put a sweet offer on his table ... involving his song, a music video, and Colonel Sanders!!!!
TMZ has obtained a letter KFC President Roger Eaton sent to Pratt this week offering him a sweet partnership with the company.
In the letter, Eaton says, "We heard the song came out before it was fully cooked, and that you were just winging it as a first cut. So on behalf of the entire Kentucky Fried Chicken family, we want to make you an offer so good you can't resist." Chicken puns ... free of charge.
Eaton continues, "We're willing to help you tune up the track and even turn it into a tasty music video, featuring the Colonel himself. That is, if you're not chicken."
Spencer afraid of a little attention? His response to the letter was, for once, simple -- "My dreams have come true!"
Aspiring rapper Spencer Pratt was planning to pitch a song he wrote and performed about chicken wings to fast food chain KFC.
But, the former reality TV star shelved the idea after listening to the finished product -- unfortunately however, not before the song was 'leaked' all over the internet.
Always quick to spot a red hot promotional opportunity, animal rights group PETA heard about Pratt's aborted attempt to become a rapping KFC spokesperson and challenged the 27-year-old to cross over to the other side, by recording an anti-KFC rap instead.
In an email exclusively obtained by Radar Online, PETA Senior Vice President Dan Matthews writes: "Dear Spencer, Instead of rapping about KFC's wings, why not speak up for the chickens who are scalded to death for the colonel?
"As you can see in this video hosted by Pamela Anderson, chickens who are killed for KFC live their entire lives mired in their own waste and filth, only to be shackled upside down by their fragile legs and have their throats cut while they are still conscious.
After watching the video, please consider recording a PETA campaign tune for our Kentucky Fried Cruelty campaign. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Dan Mathews, Senior Vice President."
Meantime, it's somewhat of a turnaround for the animal rights activist group. They once lambasted avowed hunter Spencer and his wife Heidi Montag for choosing to buy a pure breed dog rather than adopt from a shelter.
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been keeping a low profile lately – but you haven't heard the last of the dynamic duo.
A year after the debut of her album Superficial, Montag has released "Heartbeat," a synthesized dance tune.
"Touch me," she sings. "Let me know. Touch me. I don’t need. You enjoy myself. Enjoy myself to the music. Heartbeat."
As Montag, 24, told PEOPLE, "I put my heart into this music ... I want to become a galaxy star."
Not one to miss out on the fun, Pratt, 27, has a couple tunes of his own that have just hit cyberspace. Shortly after his chicken wing-themed jam, "Ain't No Thang," made its way to the public, the former Hills star has also come out with "Go to Work," his rap featuring Ya Boy and Pete G. Check it out below.
It's the songSpencer Pratt was too embarrassed to release -- an incredibly nonsensical attempt at rap about chicken wings ... counting eggs ... we have no idea ... but worst of all, it's actually not THAT bad.
The details around the song are pretty fuzzy -- but we're told Spence recorded it at an L.A. studio last year ... and he was so ashamed of the final product ... it never saw the light of day ... until now.
A sample of the lyrics -- "Money ain't a thing / Nothing but a chicken wing / Call me Mr. KFC / S dot P in the flesh."
Heidi Montag was seeking perfection when she famously underwent 10 plastic surgery procedures in November 2009. Now a year later, Heidi reveals her operation-room battle wounds for the first time to Life & Style. "Parts of my body definitely look worse than they did presurgery," she told Life & Style exclusively at a photo shoot on Dec. 2. "This is not what I signed up for."
The former Hills star reveals a series of unsightly scars, red inflammation and uneven body parts including: a 2-inch-long raised blemish under her chin from her chin reduction, two caterpillar-size bald spots along her hairline from a brow lift, a horrifying jagged line behind her ears from having her ears pinned back, lumpy legs and four spots left on her lower back and below the buttocks from botched liposuction, a bright-red mark inside her right nostril, uneven boobs, a stretched mark on her chest and deep scars around her nipples from a second boob job.
"The big dark mark from my chin reduction is probably the most noticeable. But the absolute worst is on my breasts, and the scariest is below my butt cheek," Heidi tells Life & Style. "People have fewer scars from car accidents than I have on my body."
Heidi says the scars are constant reminders that she made a big mistake. "I would love to not be 'plastic girl' or whatever they call me. Surgery ruined my career and my personal life and just brought a lot of negativity into my world. I wish I could jump into a time machine and take it all back. Instead, I'm always going to feel like Edward Scissorhands."
For more, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands now!
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are so shameless (and broke), they're reportedly planning another fake in the New Year.
In the past few months they've realized that no one really cares about them anymore and their star power died out a while ago, so they're going to try to stage another breakup in hopes of getting some press or another magazine cover.
A source close to the situation said, “He’ll cook up these schemes as long as he and Heidi continue to be paid. They’re telling anyone who’ll listen how seriously they’re taking their marriage.
“Their every move is calculated to earn money. But what they don’t realize is people are sick of it.”
So expect to see paparazzi videos and photos of them getting into a screaming match in public followed by another "we're splitting" scheme.
My theory is after they fake the split they'll pretend Heidi is pregnant and now has to be a single mom. These two are so predictable!
Heidi Montag's estranged mother Darlene Egelhoff has blasted her daughter in a new post on her self-titled blog, telling her: “It's time you showed a little respect!”
Egelhoff wrote she'd "decided to leave Heidi out of my blog because I had heard second hand she was accusing me of 'using her.'" But mom says she believes her blog posts actually are benefiting Heidi “and if anything helping her image.”
Last month, Heidi’s husband Spencer Pratt labeled Egelhoff a “hypocrite” who was just interested in trying to piggyback off her daughter's fame.
In her response, Egelhoff tore into her daughter over their year-long estrangement.
"Heidi was so unbelievably cute and such an equal part of our family, all but the last year, that without her our history is incomplete," her mother wrote.
"She is a part of our family whether she acts like it at this time or not. If you don't like it Heids, call me, lets work it out, otherwise too bad.
"I'm the mother; it’s time you showed a little respect.
“I have made mistakes but none that warrant completely shunning your entire family as a result. If you want to receive grace you must give grace."
Pratt has insisted Egelhoff is insincere in her public attempts at reconciliation with Heidi.
"If I [needed] an acting coach, I would go to Darlene," Pratt said, adding she can cry on cue "like she's Julia Roberts!”
Heidi Montag’s life may have seemed charmed during her days on The Hills, but the reality TV star revealed a darker side of fame in a recent exclusive interview with Radar Online. Montag says that the attention can often be more overwhelming than flattering and she recently schooled herself in martial arts to learn ways to protect herself.
“I can’t afford security, so I practice self defense and chain punching,” Heidi explained to Radar Online.
Though she used to have a posse of bodyguards on hand, she and husband Spencer Pratt have fallen on learner times. “I have spent millions in security in the last 4 years because I had to take care of the cost all on my own. It’s crazy and it’s hard, but life is not always fair.
“I have had to change my life. I can’t afford to go out to the clubs anymore because the sort of protection I need can cost anywhere from 5 to 10 thousand dollars a night...when you travel it’s even worst, because you need to cover the guards travel, food lodging, etc., and pay them. That is actually where all my money went because safety is number one.”
Besides cutting costs, Heidi has enjoyed the burst of independence from her practice.
“It gives me a confidence I didn’t have before,” she added. “I am doing this self defense because it gives me inner strength, and I feel safe in my home. It’s a deterrent, but I know I can’t do what the body guards do.”
Heidi has been training to become a black belt in Wing Tsun with her trainer (SIFU) Michael Casey who explained that “the system is geared straight towards self defense, so there are no rules. Punches, kicks, knees, elbows, ground fighting, strikes to vital areas. Anything goes as the goal of the system is to stop an opponent.”
“It is scary to be out there without protection, people do follow me and you can never be to careful,” Heidi added.
“It’s overwhelming, and it’s most difficult when I’m in large groups of people.”
The beautiful reality star said that while it takes years to perfect the ancient Chinese martial arts form, she has been practicing for about 6 months and realizes she has a long way to go.
“I’m not ready to go out alone yet...I’m only 5ft 2inches tall and have a small frame so I understand I can’t completely do it alone. Which is why I don’t go out as much anymore.
“Half the reason I am laying low and staying to myself is because I don’t have that security like I used too, and you never can predict what will happen.”
There may have been a Mexican elopement and a lavish Hollywood ceremony in front of "The Hills" cameras, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have finally said "I do" for their first "real" wedding and ETonline Senior Editor Nicole Dabeau was exclusively there for their romantic nuptials!
Reality TV's most polarizing couple renewed their vows just before sunset late Sunday afternoon at a beachfront house in Southern, CA.
"[This time] it's just me and my bride on a little secret beach with nobody else and it's just about her," Spencer says. "Versus last time it was about everything else, it was about drama, it was about ratings."
Heidi adds, "It was about everyone but us, so this is really our first wedding about Spencer and I and our love. Now I feel like I can finally just be Heidi and just be in a marriage and just be a person. I’m just really enjoying every day."
The couple, who has gone public about being broke, had their dream wedding donated to them. Everything from Heidi's Jenny Yoo gown, which she picked out with the help of wedding stylist Anya Sarre, to Spencer's Rik Ducar tuxedo, to their four-tier, multi-flavored cake decorated with white chocolate seashells from Hansen's Cakes, and rings from Alan Friedman. They received a 50% discount on their flowers from Sky Flowers.
Since the Heidi Montag/Spencer Pratt sex tape is never going to see the light of day, a leading porn company is going after the next best thing ... a porn directed by Speidi themselves.
TMZ has obtained a letter sent by Vivid honcho Steven Hirsch, offering the couple the chance to get behind the lens. The idea, it appears, is to have the gruesome twosome helm skin flicks that will draw directly from the couple's own fantasies.
We're told both sides will get together in the near future and discuss the deal, and Spencer is definitely interested ... if the numbers are right.
That's a phrase that applies to almost anything Spencer is offered.
Happily back together, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt feel that their rekindled marriage needs to set off on the right foot.
Trying to put their fake precious moments in the past, the former "Hills" stars have announced plans to renew their wedding vows.
Talking about the decision, Spencer told ET of he and Heidi's previous televised nuptials: "It was a movie, it was a script and it didn't feel right. No one in that building wanted us to get married. It was a nightmare."
Agreeing and expanding on her man's comments, Miss Montag chimed in to say: "We had just gone through so much crazy stuff personally and through our jobs and everything, so for me this feels like our first real marriage. Like our first restart. We deserve a second chance at our marriage and really having this moment and not being robbed of this."
Details regarding the vow renewals will be revealed on Entertainment Tonight this coming Monday, November 25th.
Spencer Pratt opens up in a surprisingly candid interview about how he and Heidi are broke and practically homeless after they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to "buy fame", how he sees no future for himself, and how he urged Heidi to divorce him to save his career.
Spencer tells ET:
"We felt the fleetingness of 15 minutes of fame so we were trying to buy, like, … Let's buy fame. Like if we could eat at this restaurant all the time, maybe we'll get seen with Mel Gibson or these bigger stars. So you know, we knew our positions, so we were having basically to buy into a tax bracket we didn't belong into."
"I know it's the dumbest thing ever spending money on things. But it's like, if we didn't, we wouldn't have got this post, or we wouldn't have got this picture in the magazine, and then we wouldn't be famous at all, and that's the only thing we had going for us at the time."
"I would say we were spending more than $100,000 [each month] on clothes for sure. And we would only wear them once."
"For me to think I was going to be famous and continue at that level of income on a steady basis, was … naive, egotistical, and just foolish. I can't have a long-range plan because I'm so hated I don't see anywhere I could go."
"I'm not afraid, I know it's a reality if we didn't have my dad letting us live in his guesthouse, Heidi and I would have no place to live so we would be homeless and we couldn't afford [to live] anywhere."
"As much as I love her, I was like, 'You need to divorce me to save any chance of a career, a business for yourself.' It's not fair for this sweet, innocent Heidi Montag to be part of Speidi. So really I was trying to divorce Speidi … ’cause you know I know I have no future career on camera, on TV, but Heidi, still to this day, I think could be the biggest actress, TV star, movie star, singer — she was born for it."
"I became this hated to buy things that I don't even have anymore. So I have nothing to show for it. Thank everything that Heidi has stayed with me through all of this because I wake up and say, 'At least I have Heidi. [That's] the greatest thing out of all of this.'"
Wow, he said a mouthful. Do you think this is the "real" Spencer or has he just decided to work this new more sympathetic angle to get some of his fame back?
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are considering taking a high-paying gig that could save their disastrous finances -- but there's a catch ... they would have to leave the country for a while.
With Speidi recently admitting that they're practically dead broke -- a betting website called YouWager.com has offered the couple real life jobs -- with a real big salary -- if they would relocate to Costa Rica.
Here's the deal -- Heidi and Spencer would get a cool $100k to "manage the odds and lines surrounding the entertainment sector ‐- ranging from celebrity news and pop culture to music and movies."
Sources close to Spencer tell TMZ, he's considering the gig -- but in light of the recent political turmoil between CR and Nicaragua ... he's "looking into how he can legally own a firearm over there so that he can protect himself."
If you were looking for backup dancers for your next music video - where would you look?
If you're Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, you go to a strip club in Sin City (of course!), and Radar Online has the pics.
Yes, our favorite reality TV trainwrecks visited the Hustler Club in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but it was strictly 'business'.
The recently reconciled (assuming they even did break-up) couple said they were there to scout a location for Heidi's next music video and to search for backup dancers.
The surgically-enhanced Heidi posed with some of the scantily clad ladies, and they even showed her showed her some of their moves. (As if Heidi's never been on a pole before!)
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are apparently dead broke and living at Spencer's parents house.
In the new issue of Life & Style magazine, the worlds most annoying couple admits they blew through $10 million dollars.
After spending $35,000 per month on rent for their Malibu pad, $3 million on Heidi’s "music career," renting studios and paying producers, spending hundreds of thousands on Heidi’s surgeries and aftercare, six cars, healing crystals and private jets the fame hungry couple now owe $2 million in taxes, are considering filing for bankruptcy and are homeless.
“We were immature, worrying too much about the famous part instead of the actual business part,” Spencer tells Life & Style. “In hindsight, we shouldn’t have spent any of our money. We should have been low-key and saved.” Spencer continues, ““We spoke with a bankruptcy attorney and I’ve looked into unemployment checks.”
He added, “We thought The Hills was going to be like 90210 and we’d have another five to 10 years,” Spencer says. “The ratings were consistent. But we never saw Jersey Shore coming. Before, TV audiences were fine with seeing us all argue, but now they want you to punch one another in the face and hook up with three different people. Our cast was a bit boring and snoozeworthy in comparison. No wonder we got canceled.”
Spencer claims they're now living at his parent’s house in their guesthouse—a studio apartment. “My parents are my lifeline.” And for once, his statements aren’t an exaggeration. “Spencer’s parents go to the grocery store for us once a week and that’s all we get.”
Sounds hard to believe that someone can blow through $10 mil, but Heidi's so called music career was definitely a bad move. Spending half a million on crystals wasn't a bright idea, and Heidi's shoe and handbag collection would have sent anyone into bankruptcy.
Sadly no one even cares about these two anymore. After all the surgeries, fake breakup and non stop publicity, we're just over Speidi. And in case you're wondering, they didn't even get the cover for their sad story, they just got a small picture on the side.
Reunited spouses Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt packed on the PDA in Las Vegas on Saturday, where Montag, 24, hosted Pure nightclub's Halloween Haunt. Pratt, 26, dressed as a Close-Encounters-style alien; Montag skipped a costume, but showed off her surgically-enhanced curves in a gold mini-dress.
"I'm Heidi Montag for Halloween," she told reporters on the red carpet. "I designed my own dress."
How does Montag feel about her body (she famously had 10 procedures done in one day) these days? "Um, ups and downs!" she said. "I'm good. I'm just trying to focus on other things, not focus so much on my body."
A lot has happened since then. The Hills, the MTV reality show that made them stars, aired its final episode. And over the summer, the pair (who married in April 2009) separated, filed for divorce and then reunited.
Montag gushed on the red carpet that, this time around, she's "enjoying our relationship. I had so much going on [before, I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a newlywed."
One thing that's definitely real: Montag's sad isolation from most of her friends and family. Her mom Darlene Egelhoff hasn't seen her daughter in nine months, and is now working as a maid in Crested Butte, Colo. to make ends meet.
Egelhoff -- who loudly objected to Heidi's surgery and her husband Pratt -- admitted to Inside Edition that it's awkward when folks now recognize her from The Hills.
"That's very humbling for me and I very much appreciate that experience because I don’t ever want to get full of myself and think I’m too good to do anything."
Spending the holiday in Sin City, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were side-by-side at Pure nightclub inside Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday night (October 30).
The attention-loving pair shared smooches with Spencer also making time to play around with a stuffed doll while hosting a Halloween bash at the popular nightspot.
During their time in Vegas, Heidi chatted with Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal about being back together with Pratt.
She said, "Fortunately, we are together. So it's been a long summer, and we are together, and I'm so excited to be in Vegas together and to have our friends there."
Continuing on, Heidi gushed, "I'm definitely feeling the best I've ever felt."
Getting into the holiday spirit, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were spotted having a pumpkin of a good time while out near their Los Angeles home on Thursday afternoon (October 28).
Ever the outdoorsman, Spencer carved a face into his pumpkin with an army knife and put it over his head while Heidi made a half-hearted attempt to hide her chest with two smaller pumpkins.
Audrina Patridge was voted off Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday's results show, leaving ABC late night ace Jimmy Kimmel to pick up the pieces, as he does every week with the show's most recent castoff.
Kimmel continually said he was surprised at how early Patridge, a beautiful and skilled dancer, was eliminated.
Patridge told Kimmel, "I'm still in shock."
"There's no way you should have been voted off tonight," Kimmel said. "Did Heidi and Spencer have anything to do with this? I wouldn't put it past them, I really wouldn't.
"What percent is Tony's fault?" Kimmel asked Patridge. "Tony, you've been on ten seasons, you've never won -- you're bad luck, that's all there is to it."
Audrina said of the moment she was eliminated: "We had no idea we were going home tonight ... and then I heard Tony said, 'It's us.'"
