grabbed by Johnson Wen, 26<\/a>, who jumped a barrier, dodged security guards and rushed towards her, in an incident that clearly rattled her during the Singapore premiere.<\/p>\nHer co-star Cynthia Erivo acted quickly to try and protect Grande while calling for help.<\/p>\n
Wen, who refers to himself as Pyjama Man, has since pleaded guilty to a single charge of being a public nuisance and was sentenced to nine days in a Singapore jail, according to international media reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Singapore District Judge Christopher Goh delivered a rebuke of the young man, who has previously been sentenced on Australian soil for being a public nuisance.<\/p>\n
Judge Goh said the act appeared to be “premeditated” and said his pattern of the behaviour suggested that he will do it again.<\/p>\n
“You seem to be attention seeking, thinking only of yourself and not the safety of others when committing these acts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
“You should be mindful that there are always consequences for one\u2019s actions.”<\/p>\n
He said, in giving the sentence, the court needed to \u201csend a signal to like-minded individuals \u2026 that we will not condone any act that potentially undermines the reputation of Singapore as a safe country\u201d.<\/p>\n
After being sentenced, Wen tried to assure the judge he “won’t do it again” and would “stop getting into trouble”.<\/p>\n
His punishment comes after he boasted about meeting Grande on social media as he posted a video of the incident where he tried to wrap his arms around the 32-year-old actress.<\/p>\n
“Dear Ariana Grande Thank You for letting me Jump on the Yellow Carpet with You,” he posted.<\/p>\n
He also shared another post of himself on Instagram, saying he was “free after being arrested”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lipreader has revealed what Ariana Grande said during the premiere of Wicked For Good in New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24871,64,63,447,125657,134,169029,63894,36104,125658],"class_list":["post-294271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ariana-grande","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-entertainment","tag-lipreader","tag-premiere","tag-ptsd","tag-wicked-for-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}