{"id":14323,"date":"2025-11-25T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14323"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:02:36","slug":"wicked-man-who-accosted-ariana-grande-at-premiere-banned-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14323","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wicked&#8217;: Man who accosted Ariana Grande at premiere banned from Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>For officials in Singapore, one Australian man\u2019s actions at the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2025-11-18\/wicked-for-good-ariana-grande-cynthia-erivo-jeff-goldblum-jonathan-bailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d<\/a> premiere earlier this month wrought enough chaos to keep him out of the country \u2014 for good. <\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority has deported and barred 26-year-old Johnson Wen from reentering the country after he crashed the yellow carpet and accosted star Ariana Grande, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cpd6qey9e4zo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several<\/a> <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-who-rushed-at-ariana-grande-deported-to-australia-barred-from-re-entering-singapore-ica?ref=search-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>. A representative for the authority did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/man-who-rushed-at-ariana-grande-deported-to-australia-barred-from-re-entering-singapore-ica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Straits Times<\/a> reported that Australian national Wen arrived in the country earlier this month on a 90-day social-visit pass to attend the movie musical\u2019s premiere and for a  vacation. The self-proclaimed \u201cTroll Most Hated\u201d was seen in video jumping over the fan barricade onto the other side of the carpet. He ran toward Grammy winner Grande with his arms and legs flailing before grabbing her roughly around the neck and shoulders. He turned and smiled for the cameras before Grande\u2019s co-star Cynthia Erivo interfered and separated Wen from Grande. He was arrested, charged and later released. <\/p>\n<p>Wen, who has a history of crashing other celebrity events including concerts down under by Katy Perry and the Weeknd, was charged with being a public nuisance days after the incident. Shortly after that, he was convicted and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2025-11-17\/ariana-grande-man-jailed-singapore-wicked-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced to nine days in jail<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>During his trial in Singapore, Wen said he was \u201cgoing to stop,\u201d according to the Straits Times. His courtroom statement, however, doesn\u2019t seem to match up with his tone on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Wen re-shared video of the incident Sunday on Instagram. \u201cDear Ariana Grande thanks for letting me join the Red Carpet \ud83d\udc9b,\u201d he captioned the video. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d premiered Friday, a year after after the first <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2024-11-19\/wicked-review-part-i-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-john-chu-musical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cWicked\u201d film. <\/a>The sequel also stars Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Marissa Bode and Jonathan Bailey. Jon M. Chu directs both films. <\/p>\n<p><i>Times assistant editor Christie D\u2019Zurilla contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2025-11-24\/wicked-ariana-grande-man-accosted-banned-deported-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For officials in Singapore, one Australian man\u2019s actions at the \u201cWicked: For Good\u201d premiere earlier this month wrought enough chaos to keep him out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}