{"id":310336,"date":"2025-11-24T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310336\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:30:11","slug":"ariana-grande-red-carpet-grabber-deported-banned-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310336\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande Red Carpet Grabber Deported, Banned From Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter being arrested and charged in Singapore, the man who rushed and grabbed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/wicked-for-good\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked: For Good<\/a>\u00a0red carpet last week has been deported and banned from the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJohnson Wen, a 26-year-old Australian, was initially charged with \u201cbeing a public nuisance,\u201d\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c051q4pnz39o\">according to the BBC<\/a>. He posted on Instagram that he was already \u201cfree after being arrested\u201d in an incident that reportedly \u201ccaused massive outrage\u201d in Singapore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut now <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpd6qey9e4zo\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC reports <\/a>that after being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2dr6y0w3rjo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to nine days in prison<\/a>, Wen has been \u201cbarred from re-entering Singapore\u201d per the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe original incident happened during the premiere for Wicked: For Good. As the cast walked the red carpet, Wen broke through past photographers and threw his arms around Grande, leaving her appearing very shaken. Grande\u2019s\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0co-star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cynthia-erivo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia Erivo<\/a>\u00a0immediately jumped in to shove the fan away and then protectively put her arms around Grande.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDuring <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/cynthia-erivo-reacts-ariana-grande-fan-ambush-singapore-rcna244945\">an appearance\u00a0<\/a>on NBC\u2019s\u00a0Today\u00a0on Thursday, Erivo explained of the moment she rushed to Grande: \u201cI wasn\u2019t really thinking. I just wanted to make sure my friend was safe. I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t mean us harm, but you never know with those things, and I wanted to make sure that she was OK. That was my first instinct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGrande has not commented on the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWen refers to himself as the \u201cTroll Most Hated\u201d on his Instagram and reportedly has a history of pulling similar stunts. He has previously posted clips of him disrupting other events \u2014 such as jumping onstage at concerts by Katy Perry, The Weeknd and The Chainsmokers, as well as running onto the field at sporting events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being arrested and charged in Singapore, the man who rushed and grabbed\u00a0Ariana Grande\u00a0on the\u00a0Wicked: For Good\u00a0red carpet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[12875,236,88,2091,14787],"class_list":{"0":"post-310336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-international","12":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}