MrBeast declares engagement to YouTuber Thea Booysen

YouTuber MrBeast has introduced his engagement to female friend Thea Booysen.

The 26-year-old published that he’d proposed on Christmas Day, sharing pictures of the instant he went down on one knee.

Mr Beast, actual identify Jimmy Donaldson, is the arena’s hottest YouTuber with 340m subscribers.

Fiancée Thea, firstly from South Africa, additionally has her personal channel, TheaBeasty, with virtually 40,000 subscribers.

Now dwelling in the USA, the 27-year-old additionally streams video games on Twitch and is a broadcast writer.

In an interview with Other folks mag, MrBeast mentioned he requested Thea to marry him whilst her circle of relatives had been visiting.

Even though he is identified for his elaborate stunts on-line, he advised the mag he sought after a “actually non-public and intimate” proposal.

The couple shared pictures and photographs of themselves and their canine dressed in matching MrBeast-branded festive jumpers.

In step with Other folks, the couple say they are now not making plans a large wedding ceremony.

“We are pondering of doing it someplace on an island the place we are a long way clear of on the subject of everyone,” Thea advised the mag.

“We are not going to check out and feature a large, extravagant wedding ceremony. It’ll be great, however it is definitely going to be intimate [with] shut friends and family.”

Thea has reportedly up to now come to the YouTuber’s defence following quite a lot of allegations made in opposition to him ultimate yr.

When he was once pressured to analyze allegations of grooming made in opposition to his former co-host Ava Kris Tyson – which MrBeast later mentioned had been “baseless” – Thea reportedly wrote on her channel that she “would not be with him” if the allegations had been true.

The pair had been not too long ago photographed in combination at a pink carpet tournament for MrBeast’s new collection, Beast Video games.

Impressed by way of the Netflix hit Squid Sport, the collection promised to be the largest are living sport display on this planet with 1,000 avid gamers competing for a money prize of $5m (£3.5m).

Then again the display, which MrBeast made for Amazon High quite than his YouTube channel, has been mired in controversy.

In September he was once named in felony paperwork filed in the USA on behalf of contestants, who alleged they might been “shamelessly exploited” and skilled sexual harassment.

Whilst neither MrBeast nor Amazon have officially replied to the allegations, in November he posted on X that the claims have been “blown out of percentage”.

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