MrBeast: YouTube star got engaged

MrBeast (26) and his girlfriend Thea Booysen (27) are engaged. The YouTube star (real name Jimmy Donaldson) announced this on social media on New Year’s Day 2025. The application therefore took place on the Christmas holidays.

The 26-year-old shared several photos that show the couple in blue Christmas sweaters in a partner look. In one snapshot, MrBeast kneels in front of Booysen, in another photo she beams and shows her hand with a ring on her finger into the camera. “Your boy did something,” wrote MrBeast.

In an interview with People magazine, the newly engaged couple revealed further details about the proposal. The two spent the Christmas holidays together with their two families; Thea Booysen’s family traveled especially from South Africa. “We were opening presents and for the last present he asked me to close my eyes because it was a surprise,” Booysen said.

MrBeast added: “I specifically dropped a big box to make a noise before I gave her the real gift – with the ring inside – and then I got down on one knee and asked her.” When Booysen opened her eyes, she said “of course yes” and was “very happy”.

MrBeast goes on to explain that he wanted the proposal to be more private and small-scale: “My friends thought I wanted to propose in a very public way, like some sort of spectacle at the Super Bowl or some other big event “But I knew I wanted the opposite, something very private and intimate,” he explained.

MrBeast, who runs the most subscribed YouTube account in the world, and Thea Booysen, also a gamer and internet star from South Africa, met in 2022 through mutual friends in their home country. The couple made their first appearance together in April 2022 at the Kids’ Choice Awards.

Since 2012, MrBeast has collected more than 340 million subscribers on the YouTube platform, making it the platform’s most successful channel. On the channel he shares videos with elaborate competitions, challenges and stunts. The content creator and entrepreneur wants to hold his big day away from the spotlight, as he told “People”.