Posted on 07/22/2026 12:48:37 PM PDT by 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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Is this AI, or is it Memorex?
Not really my concern, but best of luck to them.
Never heard of ‘em, either, but I sure give them a lot of credit for building a modern publishing empire and probably making a ton of money. And doing what they love.
Good for them for their success, for capitalizing on the new media, and for their nuptials. May they have a long and happy life and lots of Little Beasties bless them.
That dude is worth like $500 million from doing stupid shit on the internet.
and we all could have done it...
God Bless America and Capitalism
Mr. Beast has done some really cool stuff, like building wells in Africa and going around the local government so they don’t get any graft and people actually get the wells. I applaud him for that. otherwise I find him to be obnoxious, but my kids watch some of his stuff.
Yet another swanky wedding I wasn’t invited to.
But the laugh’s on them.
no invite = no wedding gift
You can rent Necker Island too. Just in case you were interested.
https://www.virginlimitededition.com/necker-island/celebrations/
The word is that Princess Di used to rent the whole place from Sir Richard Branson.
Just a short boat/submarine/helicopter ride from Epstein’s island.
An old friend of ours is one of his project managers.
met him a couple of times. odd duck, only in America could this happen.
“Exclusive hire includes use of up to 28 bedrooms; eleven in the Great House and 13 Balinese-style houses, a beach villa and bunk rooms dotted around the island, accommodating a total of 56 adults and 14 children.”
Just in case you wanted to rent the entire island. For you, the Mrs and 54 other adults.
I recall years ago thinking this was not really a bad deal because it worked out to around $1000/couple/day.
the only youtube “stars” that i’m aware of are The Critical Drinker, Scotty Kilmer, and “Taryl Fixes All” ...
Divorce in 5 years.
Wow, that is beautiful.
Great imagination and craftsmanship.
I have pondered building a big tree house on the back of my acreage. People want to rent tree houses on AirBnB.
The other thing I have considered is building a barn when I retire and put an apartment above it to rent out. I am a pretty good wood worker/finish carpenter.
NH recently passed a law that allows an ADU on every single family home. An Accessory Dwelling Unit. For in law apartments. To increase housing density. If I built something cool I could rent it for $250-300/night.
Jade and Emerald:
Never heard of them. However I wish them well, a happy healthy long life together, and many many kids.
It’s the modern world. Thanks to the internet’s ability to be literally everywhere, with no big business controlling access, and also it’s tendency to turn into an echo chamber where you’re only exposed to stuff that “matches” other stuff you watch, we now get massive subcultures that people not in that subculture never hear about.
“But the laugh’s on them.
no invite = no wedding gift”
I wasn’t invited either. Their loss. Now they’ll never get that blender I was gonna give them.
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