MrBeast is getting married.
The YouTuber, whose actual identify is Jimmy Donaldson, popped the question to girlfriend Thea Booysen on Christmas Day. He introduced the large information through his Instagram account on Wednesday, January 1.
“Ya boy did a factor 🥰🥰🥰,” he captioned a carousel of pics from the large day.
Within the photographs, MrBeast, 26, and Booysen are carrying matching MrBeast-branded Christmas sweaters as they have a good time with household in entrance of the Christmas tree. Booysen additionally shared a video via her Instagram account, by which she admires her new ring whereas sitting on MrBeast’s lap as their canine celebrates with them.
“My household flew out from South Africa for Christmas and we had been going to do Christmas in our home so each households had been right here,” Booysen instructed People. “We had been opening presents, after which for the final current he requested me to shut my eyes as a result of it was a shock.”
MrBeast added that he even tried to throw his girlfriend off the scent within the moments earlier than.
“I deliberately dropped a big field to make noise earlier than presenting the actual present — with the ring inside — to her. After which I went down on a knee and proposed,” he mentioned.
“I used to be making an attempt to consider one of the simplest ways to catch her off guard so it could be a shock,” MrBeast continued. “Thea is admittedly near her household, so I wished to make it possible for they had been included on this momentous event. Christmas labored out nice as a result of they had been on the town from the opposite facet of the world.”
The couple met in 2022 when MrBeast was visiting South Africa, the place Booysen is from. The 2 shared a dinner collectively and bonded over conversations about science and YouTube. Although MrBeast quickly needed to return house, the connection continued to develop when he despatched Booysen a direct message through X, asking if he may learn the guide she was writing on the time.
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Booysen, who mentioned she didn’t notice MrBeast was flirting, waited greater than a month to reply. When she lastly did, they received on a name collectively and talked for 3 hours.
MrBeast and Thea Booysen Courtesy of Thea Booysen/INstagram
“Then I knew [he was The One],” she mentioned. “I fell in love along with his mind. To me [that’s] all the pieces — your mind, your drive, your self-discipline, your character, that’s all the pieces to me. So after that, he instantly deliberate to return again to South Africa to satisfy up with me this time, and we began courting the second he arrived.”
Although MrBeast has greater than 340 million YouTube subscribers and 64 million Instagram followers, he hopes his wedding ceremony day is “extra non-public.”
“I don’t take a lot trip due to how onerous I work, so I positively wish to make it possible for the marriage will probably be a time to have a good time together with her and spend time with family and friends who we actually take pleasure in being with,” he defined. “Will probably be the final word approach to take a while away and luxuriate in issues.”
