This week the world's most famous cat is broke, a gymnast almost died and told us just enough to make us love her more, the Tonys proved that theatre is having its best moment in years and the best celebrity solidarity moment of the year involved two trench coats and a Sports Illustrated cover. Somewhere in Sicily, a $1.7 million wedding closed off public squares and locals wrote protest signs in two languages because they knew exactly who they were talking to. In the Cotswolds, a royal wedding told the whole story of the monarchy right now without a single person having to say a word. And two actors, three decades apart, delivered the same verdict on what Hollywood does to men's bodies: it was not worth it. Welcome to Celebrity Intelligence’s Smart Gossip Edition.

Guests: Around 200 guests made the trip, including Charli XCX and husband George Daniel, Troye Sivan, Joe Alwyn, Mark Ronson, Chris Stapleton, Kevin Parker, and Donatella Versace.

Dress: For the Sicily welcome party Dua arrived in Bottega Veneta, a feathered skirt making a strong early statement.

Party: Three days across Palermo’s most storied venues, a private walkthrough of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, cocktails in a cordoned square, an evening at Palazzo Gangi where Visconti filmed the ballroom scene in The Leopard, and the main event at Villa Valguarnera on Saturday.

Entertainment: Elton John attended and reportedly serenaded the couple with “Your Song” on piano at the reception.

Food: The banquet was catered by Michelin chef Tony Lo Coco, with Sicilian classics including arancini, pasta alla norma, cassate, and cannoli.

Venue: Villa Valguarnera in Bagheria, an 18th-century Baroque estate above the Gulf of Palermo, with the couple and guests based at the five-star Art Nouveau Grand Hotel Villa Igiea on the sea.

Decoration: The décor included a library installation of colorful stacked books which was a tribute to “Trust” by Hernán Díaz, the novel both Dua and Callum were reading when they fell in love in Los Angeles.

Protestors: Two major public squares were closed all weekend, drone flights were banned, and local businesses lost days of revenue. Locals papered the city with signs reading “Palermo is not for rent” and “Our square is not your living room.” The couple’s reported €5,000 payout to affected residents against a $1.7 million budget — landed about as well as you’d expect.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: This is the Jeff Bezos Venice playbook being run again barely a year later, and the backlash is near-identical. There is something revealing about the fact that the protest signs were written in both English and Italian. The locals knew exactly who they were talking to. Destination weddings of this scale have stopped being romantic spectacles and started functioning as occupations, and the cities that host them are beginning to push back in ways that money cannot simply fix.