Bravo Summer House star Luke Gulbranson makes…
A former Bravo tv star is trading boozy Hamptons blowouts for politics — launching an unlikely bid to unseat a sitting Republican in Congress in rural Minnesota.
Luke Gulbranson — a model-turned-actor recognized for his function on “Summer House” — said he’s completed with showbiz and has moved back home to Minnesota’s Iron Range to run for the state’s eighth congressional district, representing the rural northeast area.
Now a youth hockey coach, the fact TV alum is blasting rising costs and international coverage chaos — including the Iran battle.
Gulbranson was forged on “Summer House” after shifting to New York City as a teenager. NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
“We’re spending billions of dollars a day right now in Iran when people in our own country can’t take care of themselves,” Gulbranson told the California Post in an interview.
“Inflation’s at 3.3% right now. It’s ridiculous,” he said.
Gulbranson, an Eveleth native, said he grew up on welfare and “powdered milk” and was hit with tradition shock after relocating to New York City and the Hamptons, where money appeared to be no object.
“I didn’t have support… I was chasing a dream,” Gulbranson told The Post, recalling his leap from a tiny city of just 3,000 to the glitzy world of modeling.
He first landed in New York, then China, alone at just 19.
Gulbranson grew up in small-town Eveleth, enjoying aggressive hockey. lukegulbranson/Instagram
Gulbranson was then forged in Bravo’s “Summer House,” which chronicles hard-partying New Yorkers’ booze-soaked escapades and hookup drama in a weekend home in the Hamptons. He also landed performing jobs, showing on HBO Max’s comedy-drama sequence “The Flight Attendant.”
“It was the complete opposite of what I knew,” he said.
Gulbranson said he grew disillusioned by the rich excesses in New York City. Getty Images for Supermodels Unlimited
The low-key Gulbranson had a “Summer House” rep as nature-loving and artsy, but was caught up in a “love triangle” with co-stars Ciara Miller and Hannah Berner on Season 5 of the Bravo sequence, Page Six beforehand reported. He left the show and launched a beer line, Happy Dog Lager — later decrying the “fake drama” stoked by actuality TV producers.
“My roots are deep in the red dirt here, and I’m proud of where I’m from,” Gulbranson said, including that Minnesotans are “hardworking people that are some of the nicest, most sort people you’d ever meet, and I might get a little pissed off when I noticed … the top 1% getting tax breaks, for occasion.
“Summer House” chronicled New Yorkers’ hard-partying Hamptons antics. NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
Gulbranson launched a beer line after leaving actuality TV. lukegulbranson/instagram
“It really lit off something inside of me.”
Gulbranson is hoping to unseat the Republican incumbent, Rep. Pete Stauber, whom he slammed as ineffective and disengaged with rural voters’ struggles with health care accessibility and the associated fee of residing.
Other Democrats working in the first embody Emmanuel Anastos, Wendell Smith and Trina Swanson.
Asked how his actuality TV background might have an effect on his aspiring political profession, Gulbranson said he was grateful for the friendships he made in showbiz.
“You know, we have to raise money and I think there will be some creative and interesting ways we can fundraise and help the campaign.
“But one of the things it did show me is I’ve always been this kid from Northern Minnesota. I love my family and friends and our way of life here,” he added.
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