A person charged at Ariana Grande whereas she walked the yellow brick highway carpet on the Singapore premiere of her new film Depraved: For Good on Thursday.
In footage of the interplay captured on TikTok, the person seems to have jumped over a barricade as Grande signed autographs whereas strolling alongside the carpet at Common Studios Singapore, alongside co-stars Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum.
The person then sprinted over to Grande and threw his arm round her, leaping up and down excitedly whereas waving on the crowd. Erivo rapidly intervened, pulling them aside simply earlier than safety stepped in and escorted him off the carpet.
Grande regarded visibly shaken within the video and took a deep breath as Erivo hugged her as soon as the person was gone.
The person, recognized as Johnson Wen, calls himself a “prankster” on his TikTok account, the place he shared the footage.
“Expensive Ariana Grande Thanks for letting me Soar on the Yellow Carpet with You #depraved,” Wen wrote in his caption.
Wen lately stormed onstage and put his arm round Katy Perry throughout a live performance in Sydney, Australia, in June.
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Perry was performing her hit track Scorching N Chilly on the Qudos Financial institution Enviornment when Wen rushed onto the stage and commenced dancing beside her.
The 41-year-old singer regarded visibly shocked in a video shared to social media as the person tried to place his arm round her and jumped up and down on stage — just like his actions with Grande.
Wen then began dancing by himself after Perry spun round to distance herself from him and continued to sing. As he carried out the “floss” dance transfer, safety approached him from either side and escorted him off stage.
“There’s by no means going to be one other present like this, so simply take pleasure in it, Sydney,” Perry stated into her microphone as safety grabbed the person. “What the hell is happening?”
Police in New South Wales advised NBC Information that the person had been arrested and charged with two offences, together with coming into enclosed land and obstructing an individual in efficiency of labor or duties.
Wen hasn’t simply approached Perry and Grande; he’s shared earlier movies of himself working onstage throughout The Weeknd’s live performance in Melbourne final 12 months and working onto the sector on the FIFA Girls’s World Cup remaining in 2023.
He additionally interrupted occasions in the course of the Paris Olympics and the lads’s Cricket World Cup in Melbourne in December 2024.
A pitch invader (R) runs previous India’s captain Rohit Sharma in a match between Australia and India on the Melbourne Cricket Floor (MCG) on Dec. 27, 2024.
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When requested how he retains getting previous safety after the incident, Wen advised Australia’s 9News it was “Magic. Simply kidding, I’m simply too fast.”
Wen stated he has racked up an estimated $20,000 in fines over his stage-invading antics.
“I’m planning to love give up eternally since you get in approach an excessive amount of hassle for it,” he added.
It’s not instantly clear if he’ll face fees for the incident in Singapore.
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