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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce aren't just throwing a wedding ... they're building what looks like the grand opening of a private amusement park.

The latest addition ... a giant piece of equipment rolled into Madison Square Garden on Wednesday with a bright green label that reads simply ... "Golf."

TMZ has already reported on crews building a castle, hauling in massive white staircases, and delivering heaps of food as they unload truckload after truckload ... and at this point, the fairy tale wedding is starting to feel like a one-stop destination where guests can do just about everything.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding is just days away ... and the A-list appears to be descending on New York ... with Sabrina Carpenter and Ed Sheeran sparking rumors they're on the guest list.

As Taylor and Travis get closer to walking the aisle, famous faces keep popping up around the Empire State ... with Swifties treating every dinner reservation, coffee run, and street sighting like another piece of the guest list puzzle.

The latest clues? Sabrina was spotted grabbing a slice at a New York City pizzeria Tuesday night ... while Ed was seen dining with Taylor's longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner on Saratoga Lake in upstate NY.

The celebrity sightings are starting to feel less like coincidence ... and more like the wedding guest list slowly rolling in for the big day.

Taylor Swift and her team are going overboard to keep folks from catching any clues about her upcoming nuptials to Travis Kelce ... video shows massive black tarps going up outside Madison Square Garden, seemingly to stop those prying eyes.

MSG is abuzz with a flurry of activity as preparations continue for Friday's seemingly castle-themed wedding ... and now it looks like Taylor's had enough of curious folks seeing what's being unloaded and carried inside.

As you can see, massive black tarps are now covering the loading bays outside MSG. Another photo shows what appears to be a large fake tree being unloaded.

Look what she made him do! Taylor Swift's Madison Square Garden wedding is taking shape ... and one worker was bold enough to wear some vintage Taylor gear on the job.

Check out this forklift driver sporting a "Taylor Swift Carpenters" tee while operating a forklift at MSG ... the shirt appears to be same one given to crew on her 2011 "Speak Now" world tour.

The vintage tee is sparking all kinds of questions ... did Taylor hand him the shirt for this job, did her work on her tour, or is the guy just a full-blown Swiftie?

President Donald Trump is paying his respects to the late Village People singer Victor Willis ... Trump says he'll think of Victor every time he hears his hit song, "Y.M.C.A."

POTUS hopped on social media Wednesday and posted a tribute to Victor, who died Monday after an aggressive illness.

Trump is remembering Victor as a "great and happy guy" ... and the Prez is taking credit for making "Y.M.C.A" a "monster" hit again by playing the song at his rallies.

Victor Willis -- the legendary singer for the ultra-popular 1970's disco band "Village People" -- has died.

A social media post on his Facebook, posted by his wife Karen, says Willis passed away Monday after "a short but aggressive illness." His exact cause of death was not revealed.

Willis was the theatrical front man for The Village People ... and he who cowrote the band's most famous songs, such as "Y.M.C.A.," "Macho Man," "Go West" and "In The Navy."

Jermaine Jackson looks like he no longer has to cough up millions of dollars to his rape accuser ... a judge voided the $6.5 million default judgment against him because the woman did not use his legal name while trying to serve him the lawsuit ... TMZ has learned.

We told you all about it ... plaintiff Rita Butler Barrett sued Michael Jackson's older brother in December 2023, claiming he "violently" raped her. She said Jermaine unexpectedly showed up at her Encino, California home in the spring of 1988 and raped her for several minutes until he abruptly stopped, leaving her traumatized.

According to the filings, she and her attorney tried tracking Jermaine down to serve him the lawsuit -- even publishing a legal notice in the Los Angeles Times in August and September 2025.

Lionel Richie is back where he belongs -- onstage -- making his first performance since the health scare that landed him in the hospital!

The music legend resumed his "Sing a Song All Night Long" tour with Earth, Wind & Fire Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... and looked right back in his groove.

It was a welcome return after Friday's show in Chicago and Saturday's concert in Columbus were postponed following the medical scare.

It's just "One of Them Days ..." Can you score the scorchin' star szallin' in these hot shot selfies?!

She's a singer-songwriter known for hit songs like "Kill Bill" and "Snooze" but don't knock her on-screen credits ... She starred in a Netflix film with Keke Palmer ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding is shaping up to be crazy expensive ... and that's not even counting the roughly $160,000 it's going to cost for police assigned to work two events at Madison Square Garden.

Our high-ranking NYPD sources tell us there are going to be over 70 detectives from precincts all across the city assigned to Thursday's rehearsal and Friday's wedding ... and they'll be working 8.5 hour shifts at $80 to $90 an hour.

We'll spare you the math ... that's $95,200 on the low end.

In addition, we're told there will be over 50 police officers assigned to MSG as well ... they're mostly rookies making $70 an hour for a 9-hour shift ... which would be another $63,000.

Our sources say some NYPD higher-ups in will also be working ... so the salary figure should push over $160K.

Taylor Swift is one step closer to saying "I do" ... literally.

TMZ obtained video of a giant white staircase being craned into Madison Square Garden -- and at first glance, it looks like it could be another piece of the fairytale castle set being built for her wedding to Travis Kelce.

By now, it's clear Taylor didn't just rent out MSG -- she rented a blank canvas. The iconic venue has been transformed into a giant, windowless fantasy world that's being rebuilt from the ground up.

3:18 PM PT -- TMZ obtained video of a giant white staircase being craned into Madison Square Garden -- and at first glance, it looks like it could be another piece of the fairytale castle set being built for her wedding to Travis Kelce.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding is already looking like America's answer to a royal wedding ... and now, TMZ has learned it'll even come with its own castle!

Sources close to the wedding tell TMZ ... a massive castle is being built inside a garden at MSG, with the legendary venue being transformed into a full-blown fairytale for the big July 3 wedding event.

What's more, crews were spotted unloading giant, covered scenic pieces labeled "Garden Party 1 (Scenic)" and spray-painted "GP" outside the venue ... all arriving, fittingly, at Madison Square GARDEN!!😱

Madison Square Garden is disappearing behind layers of fabric ... all in the name of Taylor Swift's fairy tale wedding.

Sources connected to the wedding setup tell TMZ ... the event crew got to work Monday, and nearly all of the effort so far has gone into draping the entire arena. We're told workers have been tirelessly hanging fabric from the ceiling and even wrapping the perimeter of the arena floor as they build out Taylor and Travis Kelce's vision.

The makeover is so extensive, sources say it's become clear Taylor didn't simply rent MSG -- she rented a giant, windowless space she could completely reinvent. In fact, we're told guests will walk inside and quickly forget they're even in the world-famous arena.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce don't want the red carpet rolled out for them for their wedding event at Madison Square Garden ... they want purple carpet instead, even if workers have to start from scratch.

The color change is underway right now at Madison Square Garden, where workers are pulling up the red carpet they laid down earlier today on a set of stairs outside the arena.

Our photog took this video and was told the carpet is supposed to be purple, not red ... hence the frantic change.

Madison Square Garden employees are being cut off from the outside world while setting things up for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's mega-bash this week ... because they're not allowed to have their phones while they work.

Employees who work in event production for MSG tell us ... they can't have their phones during the shift, and while they haven't been told why, it's presumably so they can't take pictures of the setup.

We're also told employees are wearing wrist bands -- which is out of the ordinary -- and they have to go through an extra layer of security when they show up to work.

Ginuwine is heading towards marriage again ... 'cause TMZ has learned the R&B star is engaged to 28-year-old Miami realtor Jannette Escartin.

Jannette tells TMZ ... Ginuwine popped the question in Washington, D.C., a couple of weeks ago ... and she said yes.

The newly engaged couple tells us they're very happy and in love.