YouTuber MrBeast announces engagement to Thea Booysen [Video]

YouTuber MrBeast is engaged. 

The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, announced his engagement to girlfriend Thea Booysen in an Instagram post revealing that he’d proposed on Christmas Day. 

“Ya boy did a thing,” the caption reads. 

“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,” Donaldson said in an interview with People. 

He said he popped the question while Booysen’s family was visiting. 

“My family flew out from South Africa for Christmas and we were going to do Christmas in our house so both families were here. We were opening presents, and then for the very last present he asked me to close my eyes because it was a surprise,” Booysen told People. 

Donaldson is the world’s most popular YouTuber, with 340 million subscribers. Booysen also has her own channel, TheaBeasty, with almost 40,000 subscribers.

Donaldson met Booysen in 2022 when he was visiting …