Who Is Thea Booysen? MrBeast’s New Girlfriend And Dating Life
Jessica Burns
Updated on January 07, 2026
Mr. Beast, or Jimmy Donaldson, is an American Youtuber and online content creator.
He is famous for creating a subgenre of YouTube videos revolving around expensive stunts. Mr. Beast’s primary channel is the fifth most subscribed channel on the entire website.
At the age of 13, Donaldson started uploading videos onto YouTube. Back then, he used the moniker MrBeast6000 as his username. His early videos included Let’s Plays and assessments on the riches of other YouTubers.
He first gained notoriety in 2017 after his video about counting to 100,000 received tens of thousands of views in a matter of days.
Since then, the content creator has exploded in popularity, with many of his videos garnering millions of views. His style of content creation has evolved to incorporate survival challenges, and his challenge videos have become extremely popular due to their being cash prizes.
He also makes vlogs. When his channel became successful, Donaldson brought on many childhood friends to help him run the channel. The MrBeast crew, including Donaldson, has grown to approximately 100 members since 2022.
Who Is Thea Booysen? MrBeast’s New Girlfriend
Thea Booysen is a 24-year-old South African social media content creator.
She is known for running a Twitch channel called TheaBeasty and her Youtube channel. She is a reasonably popular content creator who has amassed 24.1K followers on Twitch, 27.1K on Instagram, 20.6K subscribers on Youtuber, and 4.7K followers on Twitter.
She usually plays games on her Twitch and makes videos on her Youtube account.
These games usually revolve around Gwent, a card game based on the fictional card game of the same name from the popular and critically acclaimed game series The Witcher. She is fairly new to the content creation, as she became a Twitch partner earlier this year.
Though she started her Youtube account on August 6, 2012, she uploaded her first video on September 16, 2019. Rumors of her and Mr. Beast dating began when they were spotted together in Las Vegas.
However, they have confirmed their relationship since then, and Mr. Beast has been featured in a handful of her videos, and she has posted many of his pictures on her social media like Instagram and Twitter.
Beast even took her to the Kids’ Choice Awards earlier this year in April. Aside from her relationship with Mr. Beast, Booysen has an honors degree in Psychology and a bachelor’s degree in Law.
She has stated that she wants to do a master’s in Scotland.
Mr. Beast’s Dating Life
Before dating Thea Booysen, Mr. Beast was known to have dated Maddy Spidel.
Unlike Thea Booysen, his relationship with Spidel was very private. They are known to have started dating in 2019 and met through Twitter. Beast announced their relationship through his Instagram account.
Spidel made her debut appearance on Mr. Beast’s Youtube channel in a video where he surprised her with over 100,000 roses for Valentine’s Day. She also made minor appearances in two videos. The first was when he adopted every dog in a dog shelter, and the other was when he spent 50 hours in a Solitary confinement chamber.
Unfortunately, their relationship was rocky through no fault, as Mr. Beast’s fans often disparaged her and their relationship by stating that she was only dating him for money.
It got so bad that Spidell had to talk about the matter and stated that she didn’t date him for his money but dated him because he had good taste in anime and made her laugh. She also asked all the trolls to leave her alone.
Sadly, it seems that things reached a point where she couldn’t take it anymore, and they split up. However, neither have spoken on the matter, but an inside source stated that the break up was more because Mr. Beast chose to focus on his work over a relationship.
Thea Booysen Is A Twitch Streamer
As stated above, Thea Booysen is a Twitch streamer who recently became a Twitch partner.
She has been growing in popularity, but strangely people have not yet accused her of using Mr. Beast to grow in fame. It’s the opposite, as many of the comments on her Instagram page have been her fans warning her of Mr. Beast.
A commenter stated in one of these pictures that his eyes looked soulless.
This backlash against him and not her compared to Beast’s relationship with Spidell can be due to the fact that many people have started becoming wary of Mr. Beast. Though he is still one of the most well-liked YouTubers on the website, with an overwhelming number (70%) of people having. Favorable views of him, many news have come out painting him in a bad light.
Many news sources have stated that Beast has a history of using slurs. Back when he was a teenager, he often called people slurs on Twitter and regularly treated LGBT people as punchlines in his jokes. A spokesperson for Mr. Beast stated that he was a teenager when he used those words and that he has since grown up.
However, more recently, Mr. Beast’s ex-employees have also started stating that he used slurs at them, insulted them, and regularly discredited them from work they did for him. Another ex-employee has stated that Beast is a perfectionist and has unreasonable demands. This person also said that Beast’s demeanor changes once off camera.
Sadly, any ex-employee who comes forth with such news receives threats from Mr. Beast’s fans.