The snigger’s on him.
Scarlett Johansson’s alleged stalker was arrested for threatening to bomb the studio of “Saturday Night Live” — the place the actress’ husband, Colin Jost, works as a employees author and co-host of the “Weekend Update” phase, regulation enforcement sources mentioned Thursday.
Michael Joseph Branham, 48 — who has the phrase “Scarlett” tattooed with a coronary heart on his torso — was busted in Manhattan Wednesday for allegedly textual content messaging the menacing remarks, the sources mentioned.
A member of the safety workforce for 30 Rock, the place the famed sketch comedy present is filmed, reported the horrifying textual content on the Midtown North Precinct Tuesday.
Branham was then charged with making terroristic threats.
He was arraigned Thursday evening in Manhattan prison court docket on expenses together with false reporting of an incident and held on $100,000 money or $300,000 bond bail.
The choose additionally issued each Johansson and Jost orders of safety towards the alleged creep at his arraignment listening to.
Johansson tried final yr to get a restraining order towards the obsessed fan, who allegedly believes he fathered considered one of her kids, and has made different bonkers claims about her on social media.
The 40-year-old Misplaced in Translation” star mentioned Branham had harassed her for greater than a yr, together with repeatedly exhibiting up at her house in November 2023, in response to the court docket submitting final yr.
However a California court docket was compelled to dismiss her plea for cover in April 2024 as a result of her lawyer didn’t serve him the court docket papers, the superstar information web site The Blast reported.
The apparently delusional fan has a wild X account the place he has declared that the actress is his “fiancée,” has professed his love, and thanked her for purchasing him “a car.”
“Don’t worry about anything #SCARLETTINGRIDJOHANSSON I still have not cheated on you no matter what the brain interface people tell you in the air waves!!!,” he tweeted in November 2023. “I love you honey I’m waiting for you still in Hollywood.”
Johansson married Jost, who has written for the present since 2005, in October 2020 after relationship for 3 years.
