{"id":144298,"date":"2025-11-17T09:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:19:08","slug":"singapore-jails-australian-over-ariana-grande-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144298\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore jails Australian over Ariana Grande incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Singapore court has sentenced an Australian man to nine days in jail for rushing film star Ariana Grande at the Asian premiere of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/entertainment\/2025\/1116\/1543737-10-things-to-know-before-seeing-wicked-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wicked: For Good<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>Grande and other stars were attending the Asia-Pacific premiere of the film at Universal Studios in the city-state last Thursday when the man, identified by court papers as Johnson Wen, 26, jumped a barricade and put his arm around the shocked actor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ariana Grande attends the \" wicked:=\"\" for=\"\" good=\"\" asia-pacific=\"\" premiere=\"\" at=\"\" universal=\"\" studio=\"\" singapore=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00237b59-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAriana Grande at the Asia-Pacific premiere of Wicked: For Good at Universal Studios Singapore last Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Wen, who is alleged to have disrupted other global sports events and concerts, &#8220;showed a pattern of behaviour, which suggests that you will do it again&#8221;, Singapore District Judge Christopher Goh said before handing down the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness video from the event at Universal Studios Singapore showed Wen running towards Grande on the yellow carpet and putting his arm around her as she stood beside her co-star Michelle Yeoh.<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Erivo, who also stars in the film, stepped in as security rushed to pull Wen away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 13: Michelle Yeoh , Ariana Grande , Cynthia Erivo , Jeff Goldblum and Jon M. Chu during the handprint ceremony at the \" wicked:=\"\" for=\"\" good=\"\" asia-pacific=\"\" premiere=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/00237b5d-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nMichelle Yeoh, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum and Jon M. Chu during a handprint ceremony at the Wicked: For Good Asia-Pacific Premiere<\/p>\n<p>Wen posted about the incident on Instagram on Thursday, appearing to claim responsibility and saying he had been released after an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFP, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Singapore court has sentenced an Australian man to nine days in jail for rushing film star Ariana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-144298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}