{"id":819174,"date":"2026-07-22T18:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819174\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:47:09","slug":"youtubes-mrbeast-married-in-british-virgin-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819174\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s MrBeast married in British Virgin Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>American YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, has married content creator Thea Booysen. <\/p>\n<p>The two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbD5P56DNo3\/?img_index=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced their marriage<\/a> on social media on Tuesday. They were engaged in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson, 28, is YouTube\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>Donaldson is also the host and co-creator of the Prime Video reality competition show Beast Games.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-819174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}