The Hills stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are among the many many who misplaced their properties within the wildfires at present raging via Los Angeles, and followers are supporting the truth TV couple in a singular approach.
For the reason that pair — who’ve been married since 2008 and share two youngsters — misplaced their Pacific Palisades home within the blaze final week, Pratt has been energetic on social media, urging his followers to stream Montag’s 2010 album Superficial as a approach to financially help them. His on-line campaign seems to have labored, as over the weekend the album hit No. 1 in each the albums and songs (for the titular “Superficial”) classes on iTunes, beating out rather more latest releases from Unhealthy Bunny, Bruno Mars, Teddy Swims and Morgan Wallen.
“Thanks a lot to everybody, No. 1 on iTunes charts, oh my gosh. Thanks for the overwhelming love and help of my music and actually rallying behind us on this devastating time and making it such a blessing,” Montag mentioned in a video posted to TikTok and Instagram on Saturday night time. “Thanks for serving to help us, serving to construct us again up, serving to to encourage us, give us that hope and religion and pleasure in such a darkish, darkish time,” whereas additionally noting the “loopy” timing of it being the album’s 15-year anniversary.
Pratt was much more excited on his personal channels, darkly joking, “Who wants a home? Who wants garments? Who wants something however this stage of clout? Pop superstardom,” whereas aiming to high the Billboard music charts subsequent. In one other TikTok video, Pratt added, “The one factor that’s actually preserving me going and feeling a lot hope and positivity and like one thing good goes to return out of the worst factor that ever occurred within the historical past of my life on earth, is everybody right here on this app” and their help of the couple.
Taste Flav additionally confirmed his personal help, posting a video of himself dancing to Montag’s tune “I’ll Do It” with the caption, “Doing my half to get Heidi Montag to #1.”
At the least 24 folks have died as Los Angeles is being ravaged by a number of fires which might be scorching huge swaths of the town, whereas firefighters work to include the huge Palisades fireplace in addition to Eaton fireplace in Altadena. On Saturday night time, the California Workplace of Emergency Companies indicated that 150,000 folks in L.A. County had been below evacuation orders, with greater than 700 folks taking refuge in shelters.
