YouTube's MrBeast married in British Virgin Islands

CBC News ^ | July 22, 2026 | Cole Cooper

[jerod]

Ties the knot with longtime girlfriend Thea Booysen

American YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, has married content creator Thea Booysen.

The two announced their marriage on social media on Tuesday. They were engaged in December 2024.

Donaldson, 28, is YouTube’s most-followed creator, with over 500 million subscribers on his main channel alone. His six alternate accounts, including MrBeast Gaming and Beast Reacts, have nearly 200 million subscribers between them.

Donaldson is also the host and co-creator of the Prime Video reality competition show Beast Games.

His new wife, also 28, is a Twitch livestreamer and YouTuber who creates gaming content under the name TheaBeasty. Her first novel, The Marked Children, was published in 2022.

The couple held the ceremony and corresponding festivities on Necker Island, one of the British Virgin Islands, owned by Virgin Group co-founder Richard Branson.

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Aptly named as his cash giveaways resemble a Ponzi scheme. You download and play the game, amass a cash reward, go to claim the funds and, oh, you first have to pay the funding fee for the card, then you have to pay the tax (if there is such a thing), both charges collected upfront. Your cash withdrawal is then placed in a processing queue. Oh, your position in line is 25,000? Good luck with that. You can also pay to get your payment accelerated but that I am not willing to try.

So, all those fee payment coming in and weeks if not months later you may get paid? (still waiting to see) Hence, my assertion.

Any class action lawyers out there?

Yes, I know TANSTAAFL. But the payment of fees sets a contract, right? Oh, and for whatever reason, there is a game bug where the Terms of Service cannot be accessed.

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I will also add that the advertisements specifically call out the unemployed and others facing a hardship. Although the ads give the impression of instant payout, like standing in line at the cash register, I have found it to be anything but. I find that targeting reprehensible.

[ifinnegan]

I’ve heard of him but don’t know what he actually does or what his videos are about.

[Ken H]

Not guilty!

[Organic Panic]

I read that as soon as whitey left the African s hole after installing those wells the diversity people tore them all up and sold the metal for scrap. It is impossible to help those people. They live in squalid s holes because they like it. Whitey needs to mind their own business and leave Africans to their own devices.

[webheart]

I don’t know how the hell he pulled off being called Mister Beast because he looks like such a pu$$y.

[TalBlack]

Wait’ll Thea takes him for half of everything he’s got, which according to my son is a lot.

[jerod]

I don’t know what Jade and Emerald are selling... But I’m pretty sure I’ll buy it.