Taylor Swift: Two men arrested and charged for allegedly sneaking fans into ‘Eras’ tour without tickets
Taylor Swift’s concerts without tickets.The incidents took place last Monday (February 26), during the third of the pop icon’s six sold-out shows in the South East Asian city-state.According to reports by outlets including The Independent and BBC News, one man allegedly distracted security staff by talking to them, while another held onto a turnstile to let three fans in.A third man who was arrested is under investigation and has yet to be charged, Singapore police said in a statement on Tuesday (March 5).Singapore has some of the strictest laws in the world, and anyone convicted of cheating faces a sentence of up to three years in jail.The shows, held as part of Swift’s mammoth ‘Eras’ tour, were in particularly high demand when the pop icon visited Singapore, as they marked the only stop in the region. Tickets sold out months before the live shows took place.According to the various outlets, one of the three men that the group snuck into the show was Chinese influencer Yang Junhao, who alleged that he unknowingly bought fake tickets.“This is me after being told I bought fake tickets, and was brought out [of the concert] to be interrogated by the police,” he reportedly told his followers in a video posted to Douyin, China’s version of TikTok (via BBC).