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A man from Australia who jumped past a barrier and touched actress Ariana Grande has been expelled and prohibited from Singapore.

Johnson Wen, twenty-six, was handed a penalty to more than a week in detention for being a public nuisance and has now been "banned from entering the country again," Singaporean immigration authorities told local media.

Wen pushed through camera crews and approached aggressively the performer and artist, who was participating in the Asian debut for Wicked: For Good on November 13. Fellow actress Cynthia Erivo intervened to remove him from Grande.

He has a background of disrupting concerts and star-studded occasions, including jumping on stage at a Katy Perry performance in Sydney in this summer.

The incident caused anger in Singapore, with numerous people saying he of causing further distress to the star.

The singer has spoken of experiencing trauma-related anxiety after a suicide bomb attack at her show in the English city in May 2017 took the lives of 22 individuals and injured hundreds.

In the legal process, the judge was informed he had made efforts to breach on the red carpet event on two occasions, according to regional reports.

He then made a another effort to jump the barricades. Event security prevented him and restrained him.

Wen later posted videos appreciating the celebrity for allowing his presence and said he was "free."

Law enforcement arrested him the next day and brought charges against him with public nuisance, to which he confessed.

The Court Judge the magistrate was referenced by media reports as remarking that Wen was "attention seeking", commenting that he was wrong to believe he would not face any penalties.

Grande has not commented on the incident.

Erivo spoke about the event to the press, stating that she "simply desired to verify my friend was safe."

"I think he didn't mean us injury, but you can't predict with these incidents, and I wanted to ensure that she was OK. That was my first instinct," she said.