{"id":385391,"date":"2025-11-17T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385391\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:39:10","slug":"man-who-grabbed-wicked-star-at-premiere-gets-prison-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385391\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Grabbed Wicked Star at Premiere Gets Prison Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA man who grabbed <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ariana-grande\" data-tag=\"ariana-grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> at the premiere of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wicked\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked\" data-tag=\"wicked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked<\/a>: For Good\u201d in Singapore last week has been sentenced to nine days in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2dr6y0w3rjo\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News reported<\/a> that Johnson Wen was found guilty of being a public nuisance in a Singapore court on Monday. As shown in a viral video, the 26-year-old Australian jumped over a barricade at the musical sequel\u2019s Asian premiere on Thursday and rushed at Grande, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/ariana-grande-charged-fan-wicked-red-carpet-cynthia-erivo-protects-1236580931\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">protected by her co-star Cynthia Erivo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAccording to local media, Wen pleaded guilty to the incident. The court heard on Monday that Wen attempted to intrude on the red carpet twice \u2014 once when he charged at Grande and another time after he was escorted out by security. Wen told the judge that he would \u201cnot do it again.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWen often posts on social media about getting close to celebrities at events and premieres. He has previously found his way on stage at the concerts of Katy Perry, the Weeknd, the Chainsmokers and others. On his Instagram story the day after the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/wicked-for-good\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wicked-for-good\" data-tag=\"wicked-for-good\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>\u201d premiere, Wen posted that he was \u201cfree after being arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThough Grande has not publicly commented on the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-wicked-reflection-singapore-1236583015\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erivo alluded to it<\/a> during a screening in Los Angeles over the weekend. \u201cWe have come through some shit,\u201d Erivo said about the film\u2019s press tour. \u201cI mean, fuck, even this last week, let\u2019s be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGrande, Erivo and the rest of the \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d cast will make their final stop in New York City on Monday night before the film opens in theaters Nov. 21. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who grabbed Ariana Grande at the premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d in Singapore last week has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179,171,67,132,68,17498,148123],"class_list":{"0":"post-385391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wicked","14":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115565557468788304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}