King Spencer Pratt?

I'll admit it, I read quite a few gossip magazines. From People to Us Weekly to OK! Magazine, I pretty much will always read the weekly celebrity gossip if I can get my hands on it. Although I will say that two people I cannot stand to read about, even if what's being said about them is horrible, are Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag. They honestly give a new meaning to the word obnoxious.

At the beginning, I thought that their stunts and horribly posed tabloid pictures were some kind of elaborate joke to gain social status. In fact, I was sure that they were kidding. Nobody could be that delusional; maybe they were poking fun at how mindless American culture has become, maybe they had plans to turn themselves around and use their influence to do good things. I would have guessed anything, but never that they were actually serious.

Recently though, it seems that their behavior has gotten out of control. Most famously, the "I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!" stunt, in which the couple complained that the show was "torturing" them and that only Jesus would save them. Upon quitting she show, Spencer Pratt made the statement, "The only way we got through it was praying. Jesus delivered us" (www.abcnews.go.com).

The thing that I found most shocking, though, has been Spencer Pratt's recent decision to change his name to "King Spencer Pratt." England has a queen, why shouldn't there be a King of America? And he has so righteously nominated himself for that position.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the King of America: Spencer Pratt.


Is that really how anybody would want to be represented? Of course, it's a complete joke and I highly doubt anybody will take his ridiculous delusions seriously, but the fact remains the same. Is this really what we want to see as the face of the United States?

Nobody is going to hail "Speidi" as the leaders of the nation, but at this point I am beginning to believe that they honestly think they are. It is no stunt, it is no elaborate plot; these people actually think they are that important. This joke has gone way too far, and it's an embarrassment to the entire nation now.