MrBeast finds his Mrs!

MrBeast finds his Mrs! YouTube star reveals Christmas Day engagement

by Staff Writer 03-01-2025 | 1:29 PM

MrBeast is about to have a missus!

The YouTuber, 26, popped the question to girlfriend Thea Booysen, 27, on Christmas Day at their home surrounded by their families, who were in on the surprise.

The “Beast Games” host, 26, who is the most-subscribed-to YouTuber, proposed to his girlfriend of two years on Christmas Day and revealed on New Year’s Day that they were affianced.

“Ya boy did a thing,” he wrote Wednesday (1) on Instagram, sharing a photo of himself down on one knee presenting an engagement ring to Booysen in their living room. 

The online content creator, whose YouTube channel boasts more than 341 million subscribers, shared additional photos of the proposal, which included the couple wearing matching MrBeast holiday sweaters and family members looking on.

Booysen, 27, also posted about the engagement, sharing a post-proposal video clip and showing off her new ring — a round-cut diamond on a rose gold band with additional diamonds on each side.

“Jimmy ❤️” she captioned the clip, referring to her fiancé’s birth name, James “Jimmy” Donaldson.

In an interview with People, the couple said Booysen’s family flew to North Carolina from South Africa to celebrate Christmas with them. Donaldson said he wanted to include Booysen’s family in the “momentous occasion” because she’s very close to them.

“We were opening presents, and then for the very last present he asked me to close my eyes because it was a surprise,” Booysen said.

Donaldson said that he intentionally dropped a large box to make noise before presenting Booysen with the real gift with the ring inside.

“And then I went down on a knee and proposed,” he said. After Booysen opened her eyes, she “of course said yes” and was “extremely excited,” she told People.

Donaldson, best known for his viral challenges, affinity for blowing things up and elaborate and exorbitantly priced stunts, flouted expectations with the intimate proposal.

“My friends thought I would want to propose in a very public way, like some sort of spectacle at the Super Bowl or somewhere else really big like that, but I knew that I wanted it to be the opposite, to be really private and intimate,” he said.

Likewise, the popular public figure is planning to make their wedding a private affair.