Summary

In an interview with Collider, Spencer Pratt reveals he got to play matchmaker on Got to Get Out, claiming credit for a future wedding.

Contestants on the show stayed in a mansion, trying to escape to win money—pot was at stake.

Spencer regrets not focusing more on mental strategy, and shares concerns, and exhaustion from the game.

Is Spencer Pratt officially trading his villain moniker for matchmaker? That’s what he claims happened when he joined 19 other contestants on Hulu’s new reality show Got to Get Out. Got to Get Out locks 20 contestants—including icons like Spencer — inside a mansion with one mission: escape. The longer they stay, the more money builds. But if someone makes it out, they take the pot, and everyone else is back to zero.
The mission was stressful, but Spencer says the highlight was being responsible for a sweet matchmaking moment that, he claims, will ultimately result in a wedding. “I am responsible for a future wedding,” Spencer tells Collider. “Lindsey and Shane, like a year and a half later, the best couple, like text me all the time, thanking me.”
He continues, “Yeah, so that feels so great because I love love and marriage. And I guarantee they’re gonna end up getting married, and I’m gonna be at the wedding, and it’s gonna be like the weirdest thing ever.” Sparks flew in the Got to Get Out house. Nick Metzler (aka Doodles) and Athena Vas got cozy early on, but as the game heated up, their budding romance cooled considerably. Meanwhile, model and Miss Earth 2020 Lindsey Coffey shared a flirty connection with MMA fighter Shane Dougherty—a moment fellow contestant Spencer quickly noticed and even encouraged.
“I felt it, they were both so similar, and I knew if they had a matchmaker, like hey, ‘You two should date,’” he says. “They support each other and travel. It’s amazing. They actually won more than a million dollars off the show. They won true love, which is priceless.”
Spencer Was a ‘Zombie’ While Competing on ‘Got To Get Out’

“I didn’t trust any of these people to not take the money if I went to bed.”

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As Omarosa noted in her interview with Collider, the game is both mental and physical, something that Spencer wishes he had planned more and ran less. “I would have tried to be less physical,” he reflects when asked about regrets. “The producer said to win this money, you should have a plan so good that you can walk right out the front door. Looking back, I wish I had that mindset more, versus like trying to run so fast, like sprint. Like, I tore my hamstring and I hurt both my knees and couldn’t move my neck for like three days.”
Instead, Spencer wishes he had gone deeper into the mental gameplay aspect. “I wish I had focused more on the mental and like strategize better so that I wasn’t like, you know, I was just sitting with my sunglasses and my Heidi shirt, you know, masterminding a way out versus like trying to physically get out.”

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But “getting out” was no easy feat, plus he and the other players were on high alert for several days in a row, which was draining and exhausting. “I didn’t sleep for like six nights because initially the game didn’t turn off,” Spencer recalls. “They turned the game off like where you could go to bed at 1 a.m., but technically from the first six or seven nights, at least five for sure, but it was a 24-hour game.”
Spencer shares why he never slept: “I didn’t trust any of these people to not take the money if I went to bed. So I was like a zombie.” He laughs, recalling how some players managed to get their beauty sleep. “I thought the Housewives weren’t playing at that level,” he says.
Spencer Reflects on the Fires That Destroyed His Home and His Matchmaking Future…?

“It’s very sad, tragic, dark, horrible.”

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Spencer and his wife, Heidi Montag’s Pacific Palisades home was destroyed in the 2025 wildfires, and he says picking up the pieces continues to be painful. “I am very grateful for all the incredible opportunities that are happening with Heidi’s music and people streaming ‘Superficial’ and buying the vinyl and the merch, I focus on that,” he says. Heidi’s single “Superficial” debuted on the Billboard charts shortly after the fires, and Spencer wore her t-shirts on Got to Get Out.
He says, “Obviously, if I focus on the fact that my childhood home, my parents can’t afford to rebuild and are selling their dirt lot, and they’re living in an apartment after being in a house for 40 years, the same house, and the fact that if we don’t start selling millions of Heidi’s records, we’re going to be selling our dirt because we can’t afford to rebuild. So if I focus on that stuff, it’s very sad, tragic, dark, horrible, but I try not to think about it.”
But he looks forward to the prospect of being a matchmaker on the small screen. “I’m pretty sure Hulu has a big dating show coming this summer, so I’m angling for Heidi and I to host it,” he teased. Stay tuned …
For now, catch Spencer Pratt on Got to Get Out, which streams on Hulu on Friday, April 11.