Man who rushed Ariana Grande at "Wicked: For Good" premiere is charged

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Singapore authorities charged an Australian antheral Friday for rushing movie prima Ariana Grande astatine the Asia premiere of "Wicked: For Good."

Grande and different stars were attending the opening nighttime of the movie astatine Universal Studios successful Singapore erstwhile the man, identified by tribunal papers arsenic Johnson Wen, 26, jumped a barricade and rushed the actor.

Wen was charged with "being a nationalist nuisance," Singapore tribunal documents posted online showed. Wen represented himself and said helium would plead guilty, according to the documents. He is to look successful tribunal again connected Monday.

Viral video clips amusement the antheral wrapping astir a shocked Grande earlier helium jumps up and down and waves to the crowd. Grande's co-star Cynthia Erivo past rushes to her defense, jumping betwixt Wen and Grande and shoving him away. He was past grabbed by information guards and enactment backmost implicit the barricade. Footage shows Erivo and others connected the reddish carpet comforting Grande.

After the incident, Wen shared video connected Instagram and thanked Grande for "letting (him) leap connected the Yellow Carpet" with her.

If sentenced, Wen faces a $1,500 fine, 3 months successful jail, oregon both.

Singapore's nationalist prosecutions bureau could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

The movie motorboat went up connected Thursday night. "Wicked: For Good" will beryllium released successful the United States connected Nov. 21.

Grande and Erivo person been inseparable during the movie musical's property tours. In December 2024, Erivo told "CBS Mornings" that the duo made a pact aboriginal successful production to instrumentality attraction of and enactment each other.

"Before we started shooting some of america had a speech astir making definite that we would instrumentality attraction of each different and marque the abstraction that we needed for each other, and take, you know, springiness each different what we needed, beryllium generous with each different successful this thing, due to the fact that we knew it was a large undertaking," Erivo said. "We knew we had a large responsibility, but we knew neither of america could truly bash that alone."

Grande, 32, began her vocation arsenic a teen connected Broadway earlier embarking connected a hugely palmy popular career. At possibly the tallness of her meteoric popular fame successful 2017, 1 of her concerts was bombed. The Manchester Arena attack killed 22 people, wounded much than 1,000 and near Grande with PTSD.