Who Is MrBeast's Fiancée? All About Fellow Gamer Thea Booysen (Who Met theBeast GamesHost 'By Accident')

Mar. 15, 2025

Thea Booysen and MrBeast attend Nickelodeon’s 2023 Kids' Choice Awards at Microsoft Theater on March 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

MrBeastand his fiancée, Thea Booysen, have both made names for themselves on the internet.

The YouTuber, born Jimmy Donaldson, met Booysen, a fellow gamer and internet personality from South Africa, in 2022 when he was visiting her home country. During that trip, MrBeast went to dinner with a mutual friend who invited Booysen to join them.

“I really wanted to meet him in person,” she shared during an interview on theWide Awake Podcast. “He was super nice, very down to earth and he started asking me a lot of questions. Little did I know he was going off a list because he was looking for a new girlfriend."

After that initial conversation, MrBeast and Booysen stayed in touch and quickly started dating. By April 2022, they made their first public appearance at the Kids’ Choice Awards. Booysen later shared an image of them on the orange carpet onInstagram, describing it as an “amazing night.”

On Christmas Day 2024,MrBeast proposed to Booysen.

“In my mind, we’re already married. We’re already on the same page. We talk about children, how we’re going to live together when we’re 70 years old … this was just another step in the process,” she told PEOPLE.

So who is MrBeast’s fiancée? Here’s everything to know about Thea Booysen and her relationship with the online personality.

She’s a gamer and YouTuber

MrBeast smiles with his girlfriend Thea Booysen.MrBeast/ Instagram

MrBeast/ Instagram

Booysen started her gaming career in 2016 when she began streaming card-based video games on Twitch and YouTube. She is also a co-owner of the South African esports organization Nixuh.

She has multiple degrees

MrBeast and girlfriend Thea Booysen visit Japan in May 2023.MrBeast/ Instagram

Booysen often speaks about her desire to learn — a trait that MrBeast really admires.

“She has a genuine love of learning, and that’s something that I have,” he said on theLex Fridman Podcast.“I’m always learning and improving [with her].”

In 2022, Booysen graduated from Stellenbosch University with a bachelor’s degree in law and an honors degree in psychology. In November 2024, she earned a master’s degree in neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and shareda photo of herself and MrBeast celebrating her graduation.

She’s a published author

Thea Booysen holds the book she wrote titled “The Marked Children”.Thea Booysen/ Instagram

Thea Booysen/ Instagram

Booysen has a passion for creative writing. In 2022, she published her debut young adult novel,The Marked Children,which she started working on while still in high school.

“It took me about seven years to finish it,” she told theExpresso Show,explaining that she worked on the novel throughout her undergraduate studies.“It feels surreal, in all honesty, having it go from the PC and the word documents to paper feels really nice.”

MrBeast and girlfriend Thea Booysen attend Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024 at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada.Thea Booysen/ Facebook

Thea Booysen/ Facebook

“Jimmy was coming down to South Africa withLogan Pauland Casey Neistat and they had a video they wanted to film in Antarctica,” she said. “Everybody got COVID so they had to cancel the video and stay in South Africa a little bit longer.”

“The fact that he could keep up with the conversation to me was very attractive because you have to have a certain amount of interest and intellect,” Booysen said.

They had a long-distance relationship at first

MrBeast and girlfriend Thea Booysen dig for dinosaur fossils at the Muddy Creek Mining Co. in Hanksville, Utah.Thea Booysen/ Instagram

After that first interaction, MrBeast sent Booysen a DM, and the two started talking online. Soon after that, he flew back to South Africa for one day just to see her again.

“He was adamant he wanted to come visit again and I was keen — I wanted to get to know him better,” she said on theWide Awake Podcast.

They quickly started dating and in April 2022, the couple made their first public appearance at the Kids’ Choice Awards. Initially, their relationship was long-distance, but in 2024, Booysen confirmed toMyBroadbandthat they’d moved in together.

She went on to explain that because of her tourist visa, she spends half of the year in the U.S. and the other half in South Africa. “I’m essentially living with him and we just adopted a dog," Booysen said.

She’s spoken out in support of MrBeast

Thea Booysen and MrBeast at Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.Thea Booysen/ Instagram

In August 2024, Booysen replied to a comment on a now-deleted YouTube video to defend her boyfriend. In response to a fan who urged her to break up with “the Beast,” she shared her thoughts.

“I appreciate the message. There is so much that is not being said, I wish I could talk more about the situation,” Booysen wrote. “Half the things that are said are not true. I wouldn’t be with him if they were. It is so important to me to be a good person.”

MrBeast later responded to the claims, writing onX (formerly Twitter), “We have tons of behind the scenes dropping when the show does to show how blown out of proportion these claims were. Just can’t release it now because it would spoil the games.”

MrBeast said Booysen helped him “mellow out”

MrBeast with girlfriend Thea Booysen in the Maldives.Thea Booysen/ Instagram

On Andrew Schulz’sFlagrantpodcast in 2022, MrBeast shared that Booysen met all of his standards right away.

“I just need a partner who loves learning [and] just wants to improve,” he said. “It’s very hard to find someone like that that’s also very beautiful.”

In an interview on theLex Fridman Podcast,he also praised Booysen for helping him become a better person. “I struggle to turn off my brain at night,” he said. “But just chatting with her and hanging out with her helps me, basically, just shut my brain off and mellow out.”

She and MrBeast got engaged in December 2024

MrBeast and Thea Booysen in 2024.MrBeast

MrBeast

MrBeastpopped the questionon Christmas Day 2024 while he and Booysen opened gifts with their families.

“For the very last present he asked me to close my eyes because it was a surprise,” Booysen told PEOPLE. MrBeast added: “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.”

The couple foresee having an intimate wedding “somewhere on an island where we’re far away from just about everybody.”

source: people.com