Last week, Ariana Grande was walking the red carpet at the Singapore premiere of her new movie Wicked: For Good when a man jumped over a barricade, put his arm around her, and jumped up and down. Grande seemed absolutely shocked, and her costar Cynthia Erivo immediately started pulling him off of her before security jumped in. As it turns out, the man in question was Johnson Wen, a 26-year-old Australian influencer who goes by the name Pyjama Man and who has made a habit of this kind of stunt. Now, a Singapore court has sentenced Wen to nine days in jail for the appropriate crime of “public nuisance.”
The BBC reports that Johnson Wen pleaded guilty to public nuisance and got his sentence last Thursday. Wen has also posted videos of himself jumping onstage with Katy Perry and the Weeknd, and he has reportedly disrupted two other movie premieres in Singapore. He has also been banned from different stadiums for running out on the field during sporting events. At the Wicked: For Good premiere, he reportedly made two different attempts to get on the red carpet.
According to the BBC, prosecutors in Singapore described Johnson Wen as a “serial intruder.” The incident with Ariana Grande went viral and cause widespread outrage, especially considering that Grande has already gone through the suicide bombing of her 2017 Manchester bombing, which left 22 people dead. At his hearing, Wen told the judge that he would “not do it again.”
