BY DC CUEVA
Coinciding with the channel's resurgence in the past year, one of MTV's great success stories has been unfolding in the docu-soap
Siesta Key. Those who watched the first half of Season 1 of the summer series have been glued to the drama down in Florida in its winter half, and in a few days from now is its season finale.
Before there was Bananas, there was
Spencer Pratt, who first popped up on a little-known reality series where he was Brody Jenner's right-hand man. But it was when he invaded the second season of
Laguna Beach spinoff
The Hills in 2007 that would become his legacy to many reality TV fans. There, Spencer began to date and then shack up with Heidi Montag, and it was the beef between them and her former roommate and friend Lauren Conrad that was one of the overarching stories of the show's six-season run.
Outside the MTV cameras, the Speidi story was just about everywhere: the second season of
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! U.S. where they left a sour taste in everyone's mouths with what happened there, an episode of How I Met You Mother, and even their own musical single. After they got hitched, Spencer & Heidi also created headlines when she had to file for divorce which then turned out to become nothing less than a publicity stunt, and him getting cuffed up in Costa Rica after getting caught trying to smuggle in hunting weapons in a flight to that past Challenge host country.
With two stints in the U.K. Celebrity Big Brother house -- runners up in their first go in 2013, Marriage Boot Camp and time to talk to Rob Cesternino of Rob Has a Podcast, it was no surprise that a 2015 Yahoo! poll named Spencer over Omarosa and Survivor's Russell Hantz as the "Greatest Reality TV Villain" a year before
that steal that likely made that vote meaningless. He has settled down a bit: a USC political science degree, a baby who just turned five months old. And it's no surprise that he was asked by Cosmopolitan Magazine to offer his thoughts on MTV's Florida-based revival of the reality-soap concept, Siesta Key... which brings us to a few weeks ago.
There, Pratt Daddy was in New York to drop in on TRL to offer his thoughts on Siesta Key in the Times Square studio with DC Young Fly and company. Those who check out Cosmo for the episode recaps know that he has no filter when getting to offer his two cents on the Florida heartthrobs. But while in the digital room getting asked questions about the cast, he had absolutely no idea that one of the Siesta Seven was in the same room as him.
During the winter half of Siesta Key,
Kelsey has gotten back together with resident gym rat Garrett, and has also flirted with the new stud in town Carson. The Midwesterner has also seen modeling knock on the door again, which saw her go up to New York along with Madisson... only for reality to set in afterwards. That was only part of the second half of a season that has seen the whole dynamic of the clique change considerably from when it all began a few weeks before Dirty 30 premiered.
Kelsey had heard Spencer say some negative things about her on both TRL and on Cosmo, and saw the perfect opportunity to get back at him. And in that classic manner we all love, Kel goes into disguise with a wig, a makeover and using a different name to serve as a boom mic operator for a camera crew while MTV News is asking him about what's been transpiring this season. See for yourself below, as this surprise Punk'd prank unfolds. Sorry, no Ashton Kutcher appearing.
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