Who Is Thea Booysen? MrBeast Announces Engagement

MrBeast is about to have a Mrs! The popular YouTuber has announced that he is engaged to his girlfriend, Thea Booysen. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, on January 1, MrBeast, whose given name is Jimmy Donaldson, shared a photo of himself getting down on bended knee before smiling family members. Captioning the post, which also featured a close-up shot of Booysen’s dazzling diamond ring, MrBeast, 26, wrote: “So I kinda did a thing..” For her part, Booysen, 27, posted a photo of the newly-engaged couple hugging, adding the caption: “Happy New Year indeed.” MrBeast and Thea Booysen celebrate the premiere of the new Prime Video competition series “Beast Games” at a content creator special screening on December 18, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. MrBeast, whose real name is… MrBeast and Thea Booysen celebrate the premiere of the new Prime Video competition series “Beast Games” at a content creator special screening on December 18, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, recently announced his engagement to Booysen on social media. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Prime Video Speaking about the engagement to People, Booysen said that her family was in on the romantic surprise. “My family flew out from South Africa for Christmas and we were going to do Christmas in our house so both families were here,” she said. “We were opening presents, and then for the very last present he asked me to close my eyes because it was a surprise.” Explaining how he went about pulling of his proposal, MrBeast said: “I intentionally dropped a large box to make noise before presenting the real gift—with the ring inside—to her. And then I went down on a knee and proposed.” An “extremely excited” Booysen “of course said yes” once she realized what was going on. This is a breaking story and will be updated.