{"id":39545,"date":"2025-11-14T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39545\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:16:12","slug":"man-who-grabbed-ariana-grande-on-wicked-red-carpet-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39545\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who grabbed Ariana Grande on &#8216;Wicked&#8217; red carpet charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who charged at Ariana Grande at the Singapore premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d is now facing the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c051q4pnz39o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a>, Johnson Wen, 26, has now been charged with being a public nuisance in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a fine of\u00a0up to $2,000 ($1,540), if he is found guilty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Grande, 32,\u00a0remained in high spirits despite the scary situation. She posted snaps from the press tour on Instagram and wrote,\u00a0\u201cThank you, Singapore \u2661 we love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Wen in his Instagram post after the incident.  Pyjama Man\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo at the premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d in Singapore on Nov. 13, after the incident.  The Straits Times\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lalisatto\/status\/1988956384097104371\" rel=\"nofollow\">multiple videos that went viral<\/a> from Thursday\u2019s event, Grande can be seen walking the red carpet with co-stars Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum.<\/p>\n<p>Wen then rushes toward Grande and wraps his arms around her. <\/p>\n<p>As the \u201cThank u, next\u201d singer struggled to get away from him, Erivo, 38, rushed in to protect her. The actress placed herself in between Wen and Grande.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Security then came to remove him. Grande looked visibly shaken from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Wen is an Australian who posts under the handle \u201cPyjama Man\u201d on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Security removing Johnson Wen after he ran at Ariana Grande at the Nov. 13 Singapore premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d The Straits Times\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Wen charging at Ariana Grande on Nov. 13.  Pyjama Man\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Wen charging at Ariana Grande at the Singapore premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d Pyjama Man\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>He frequently shares videos with over 11,000 followers about getting close to celebrities such as Katy Perry and the Weeknd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wen posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQ_zuu5j5qV\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a video of the incident with Grande<\/a>, captioning it, \u201cDear Ariana Grande Thank You for letting me Jump on the Yellow Carpet with You.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comments blasted him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is this person allowed to continually post videos of himself assaulting \/ harassing people?\u201d one person wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s distressing and disgusting and unlawful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another person wrote, \u201cAre you happy now? Does it bring you joy to disturb celebrities? That\u2019s sad,\u201d while another comment slammed him: \u201cCongratulations everyone hates you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ariana Grande in \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Ariana Grande at the Nov. 13 premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d in Singapore. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A third person commented, \u201cDude this is not okay. Look how badly you scared her! You put hands on her. I sincerely hope you charged with something and banned from events.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On his Instagram Story on Thursday, Wen posted that he was \u201cfree after being arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he appeared in court via video link, with no legal representation.\u00a0Per the Singapore newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-who-rushed-at-ariana-grande-at-universal-studios-singapore-charged-with-being-a-public-nuisance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Straits Times<\/a>, he is expected to plead guilty on Nov. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grande is currently on a world tour with the \u201cWicked For Good,\u201d cast, which will wrap up in New York City on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The movie hits theaters Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who charged at Ariana Grande at the Singapore premiere of \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d is now facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2633,15875,1214,23016,157,2555,158,9,11,10,9367,17316],"class_list":{"0":"post-39545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-ariana-grande","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-cynthia-erivo","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-news","18":"tag-red-carpet","19":"tag-wicked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}