{"id":133836,"date":"2025-11-14T00:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133836\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T00:34:07","slug":"ariana-grandes-co-star-turns-bodyguard-as-fan-accosts-star-at-film-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/133836\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande\u2019s co-star turns bodyguard as fan accosts star at film premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Prankster Johnson Wen, who goes by Pyjama Man online, later identified himself on social media as the offender. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m free after being arrested\u201d, he said in an Instagram story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The influencer has made a name for himself online with similar incidents, including accosting Katy Perry and The Weeknd at concerts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">He also gained notoriety for pitch invasions at the 2023 Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup and Cricket World Cup finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">His post about his stunt in Singapore today attracted condemnation from many commenters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou literally assaulted her. This isn\u2019t a flex, it\u2019s a crime. Shame on you!\u201d one said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Other comments echoed that sentiment, labelling his actions as \u201csad\u201d, \u201cunlawful\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/ariana-grande-attempts-kiwi-accent-during-wicked-movie-interview-with-zms-bree-and-clint\/BKVQYZIFDFD5HBPY5QSECK2VVE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/ariana-grande-attempts-kiwi-accent-during-wicked-movie-interview-with-zms-bree-and-clint\/BKVQYZIFDFD5HBPY5QSECK2VVE\/\">Grande and Erivo<\/a> star as Glinda and Elphaba Thropp (Wicked Witch) in Wicked: For Good, the conclusion of the two-part story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The film comes to New Zealand cinemas next Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">The pair\u2019s friendship has been well documented, with both publicly sharing praise for each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">Speaking to the New York Times last year about her relationship with Erivo during the filming of Wicked, Grande said: \u201cThat was one of my most cherished parts of this experience: I felt held and like I had a friend every step of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rVZUAWgtAFijHNuRNP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m really proud of us for how genuinely we took care of each other throughout this whole time.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prankster Johnson Wen, who goes by Pyjama Man online, later identified himself on social media as the offender.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[91643,3376,82996,806,1975,12124,10748,28427,88765,1403,156,88767,13503,593,91642,157,111,139,69,16083,11426,4625,2737,32951,74302],"class_list":{"0":"post-133836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-accosts","9":"tag-actor","10":"tag-ariana","11":"tag-as","12":"tag-at","13":"tag-bodyguard","14":"tag-came","15":"tag-costar","16":"tag-cynthia","17":"tag-defence","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-erivo","20":"tag-fan","21":"tag-film","22":"tag-grandes","23":"tag-music","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-premiere","28":"tag-rushed","29":"tag-singer","30":"tag-star","31":"tag-turns","32":"tag-wicked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}