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MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is one of the most recognizable internet personalities in the world.

His massive YouTube success, philanthropic stunts, and highly produced challenge videos have made him a global celebrity.

As his public profile has grown, so has curiosity about his private life, including his dating history.

Searches for “every woman MrBeast has ever dated” continue to trend because audiences are often interested in the romantic lives of high-profile creators.

However, unlike many internet figures, MrBeast has kept his relationships extremely private, which means there is limited verified information available.
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00:00And I went on, I don't know, I think I went on 38 different dates before I met Tia.
00:05From buying over 100,000 flowers for an ex-girlfriend who later called him a weirdo,
00:09in a public post to going on dates with nearly 38 women,
00:13and even traveling across the continent in search of love,
00:15Mr. Beast's relationship history is full of shocking twists.
00:19Here's every woman he's ever dated.
00:21The first girlfriend.
00:23The year is 2019.
00:25Mr. Beast is not the biggest name on YouTube yet.
00:27He is a young man from North Carolina who spends most of his time locked in a room making videos,
00:32and then a girl slides into his Twitter DMs.
00:35Her name is Maddie Spidal.
00:36She is 19.
00:37She was born on the 31st of March 2000 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
00:41She is a dancer, a model, and a small-time influencer.
00:44And somehow she gets Jimmy Donaldson's attention through a single DM.
00:48They meet up for their first date in June of 2019.
00:52Jimmy tells the story on camera a few months later.
00:54How long have y'all been dating?
00:55Eight months.
00:56How'd you meet?
00:57Twitter.
00:57Surprisingly.
00:58That is Jimmy speaking about her almost eight months in,
01:01and the details of that first date paint a picture nobody expected.
01:05Where was your first date?
01:06We went to a comedy club, and then we went and looked at stars, and...
01:09I could go out for a really long time, but that was basically it.
01:11A comedy club and stargazing.
01:13They start dating quietly, but a now-deleted Instagram post of them watching a PewDiePie video
01:18tips off the fans.
01:19Once the news is out, Maddie gets hit with the wave of hate every girl who dates a rich man
01:24gets.
01:24People call her a gold digger.
01:26She fires back with a since-deleted tweet saying she does not want Jimmy for his money.
01:30She just wants a boyfriend with good taste in anime who can make her laugh.
01:34Then comes the biggest moment of their relationship.
01:36It is Valentine's Day of 2020.
01:39They have been dating about eight months, and Jimmy pulls off one of the most famous gestures
01:43in YouTube history.
01:45I bought 100,000 roses, and this truck isn't even all of them.
01:49We have two entire trucks full of roses.
01:52He rents a giant house.
01:53He fills every room with 100,000 fresh roses, two truckloads.
01:57His crew arranges them into a heart, a baby Yoda, and Maddie's name spelled out in petals.
02:01Before Maddie walks in, Jimmy FaceTimes her mom to get approval on the surprise.
02:05He also stops filming for a second to speak plainly about her.
02:09She's very smart and funny and beautiful.
02:11And I really like her a lot.
02:14And maybe she can be in more videos in the future.
02:16The video pulls tens of millions of views.
02:18Maddie starts appearing in a few more uploads.
02:20She shows up at the end of I Spent 50 Hours in Solitary Confinement in May of that year.
02:25She joins him for I Adopted Every Dog in a Dog Shelter in July.
02:28And they take home a dog and name him Pinky.
02:30In December of 2019, Jimmy rents out a whole movie theater to show her a photo montage of
02:35the two of them.
02:36But behind the grand gestures, Maddie is trying to keep the personal side quiet.
02:40She talks about it on her own channel later, without naming him.
02:44I think when your relationship is very public, it can distort the way you feel about that person
02:49or about your relationship.
02:51For almost three years, they seem happy.
02:53Jimmy's channel explodes.
02:54Maddie grows her own following.
02:56From the outside, it looks like a fairy tale.
02:58From the inside, something is already breaking.
03:00The cryptic fallout and the 38 dates.
03:03The break comes quietly.
03:05No farewell video.
03:06No goodbye post.
03:07In early 2022, a Rolling Stone reporter is putting together a big cover story on MrBeast.
03:13Buried in the article is one line.
03:15Jimmy has recently split from Maddie Spider.
03:17Jimmy refuses to talk about it on the record, citing her privacy.
03:21But people close to him do.
03:22They describe Maddie as a positive influence who pushed him toward better work-life balance.
03:26Jimmy could not stop working.
03:28His former collaborator Ava Chris Tyson, then Chris Tyson, tells the reporter the same.
03:32The relationship did not survive.
03:34That looks like the end of the story.
03:36It is not.
03:37Two years later, Maddie breaks her silence.
03:39It is August of 2024.
03:41MrBeast is in the worst news cycle of his life.
03:44His company is under investigation.
03:45A former collaborator has been dragged into a serious scandal, and Maddie Spidal posts on
03:50Instagram stories.
03:51She never says his name.
03:53Everyone knows who she is talking about.
03:54She opens with a message aimed at YouTube itself.
03:57You need to re-evaluate who you're putting on the trending page.
04:00Then she talks about being 19 when it started, and how 19 to 21 are formative years that changed
04:05how she trusted men.
04:06Then she drops the line that gets screenshotted a million times.
04:09She writes, I believe I should be used as a cautionary tale.
04:12If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
04:15How he treats other women will ultimately be how he treats you.
04:18She mentions months of therapy.
04:20She warns young women about scary people out there, people who will hurt you, use you,
04:24spit you out, and then tell you it's your fault.
04:26Fans do the math.
04:27Maddie was born in 2000.
04:29She started dating Jimmy at 19.
04:31She turned 21 right around the split.
04:33The post is about ages 19 to 21.
04:35It is about dating someone famous.
04:37The timeline lines up.
04:39When critics call the post too vague, Maddie fires back on X.
04:42Three years away from that weirdo.
04:43My skin is clear.
04:45My relationships and friendships are flourishing.
04:47I'm frolicking in a field.
04:48That one word, weirdo, blows up across every drama channel on the internet.
04:52She has been broken up with Jimmy for about three years.
04:55Jimmy never responds.
04:56He just keeps making videos.
04:58But while the drama is playing out in 2024, he has already found someone new.
05:02He is four months from getting engaged to her.
05:04And the way he found her only came out on camera in early 2026,
05:08when he sat down with the Wall Street Journal for a show called The Job Interview.
05:12Jimmy tells the world that after Maddie, he did not go looking for love.
05:15He went looking for a wife with a checklist.
05:18I know what an ideal partner for me would be.
05:21I'm not dating to date.
05:22When I date, it's obviously to marry.
05:24Then he drops the number that shocked the internet.
05:27Then I went on, I don't know, what was it?
05:28I think I went on 38 different dates before I met Tia.
05:3238 dates, 38 different women.
05:34He sat across from each of them, asked questions, read their personalities,
05:38and checked a list in his head.
05:39Was she smart?
05:40Did she have real hobbies?
05:41Did she have a thirst for knowledge?
05:43Would she be a good mother?
05:44It took 38 dates to find someone.
05:46Like, I'm not giving up that easy.
05:4737 times the answer was no.
05:49He shook hands, said goodnight, and called the next one.
05:52The approach got him roasted online.
05:53People called it cold.
05:55People called it creepy.
05:56Jimmy did not care.
05:57On date number 38, half a world away in South Africa, he was about to find her.
06:01The one.
06:02While Jimmy was working through 38 dates in America,
06:05a woman on the other side of the world was minding her own business.
06:08Her name is Thea Bukson.
06:09Online, she goes by Thea Beastie.
06:11She's from Cape Town, South Africa.
06:13She is a gamer, Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and author, finishing degrees in law, psychology,
06:18and neuroscience.
06:19In her free time, she is writing a novel called The Marked Children, and she barely leaves her
06:23house.
06:23Then in 2022, Jimmy flies into her country with Logan Paul and Casey Neistat.
06:28They were supposed to fly to Antarctica for a video.
06:31Everyone catches COVID.
06:32The shoot is canceled.
06:33They get stuck in South Africa longer than planned.
06:36Logan Paul drags a reluctant Jimmy to a club one night.
06:38A friend of Thea's is there, spots the group, and calls her.
06:41Thea almost says no.
06:43Curiosity wins.
06:44She agrees to come out for coffee.
06:45She tells the whole story on the Wide Awake podcast.
06:48So how did you meet Jimmy?
06:49Honestly, I feel like most people wouldn't believe.
06:52It's like, it's literally something like out of a movie.
06:55She shows up at dinner.
06:56She meets Jimmy in person, and he is nothing like she expected.
06:59So I got there, and he was super nice.
07:02Very down to earth.
07:03What Thea does not know that night is that Jimmy is quietly running his checklist.
07:07She is date number 38.
07:08Little did I know, he was actually like going off a list, because he was like looking for
07:14a new girlfriend, potentially.
07:16He asks about her hobbies, her book, her neuroscience research.
07:19Thea thinks she is having the best conversation of her life.
07:21She has no idea he is checking boxes.
07:24The fact that he could keep up with the conversation, to me, was very attractive, because you have
07:29to have a certain amount of interest and intellect.
07:32On his side, according to what he told the Wall Street Journal, he knew almost right away.
07:36Oh, literally within an hour of talking to her.
07:39She told him she was an author.
07:40She was writing a book.
07:41She talked about ideas the way most people gossip about celebrities.
07:45That was the box he had been trying to check for three years.
07:48Jimmy flies home to North Carolina and cannot stop thinking about her.
07:51He slides into her DMs asking about the book.
07:53They start talking every day.
07:55Then he books a flight back to South Africa just to see her.
07:58The flight is about 24 hours each way, and Jimmy is on the ground for barely more than a day.
08:02He comes back a second time, then a third.
08:05Then Thea flies to America with him for a month, and they are dating for real.
08:08They make their public debut in April of 2022 at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.
08:14Jimmy wins Creator of the Year.
08:16Thea stands next to him on the red carpet.
08:18For the next two years, they run long distance.
08:20Thea splits her time between Cape Town and North Carolina.
08:23She finishes her master's in human cognitive neuropsychology in Edinburgh.
08:27Jimmy keeps building his empire.
08:28They adopt a cat off the street and name her Satan.
08:31Through all the online drama around him, Thea never wavers.
08:34I always say people know Mr. Beast, but I know Jimmy.
08:37Then comes Christmas Day of 2024.
08:40Both families are together at Jimmy's house in North Carolina.
08:43Thea's parents flew in from South Africa.
08:45Everyone is opening presents.
08:47There is one last box.
08:48Jimmy hands Thea a huge box as a decoy, just for the noise.
08:51He asks her to close her eyes.
08:53She opens them to find him on one knee with the real ring.
08:56She says yes.
08:57They keep it quiet for a week.
08:58Then on January 1st of 2025, Jimmy posts a photo carousel of the proposal with the caption,
09:04Ya boy did a thing.
09:05On the Wall Street Journal show, he finally puts into words why he chose her.
09:09He describes her as one of the first people he has ever met who pushed him to be a better
09:14businessman.
09:14Then he talks about the kind of mother he thinks she will be.
09:17They plan a private wedding.
09:18No cameras, no content, possibly on an island, just family and close friends.
09:22On the 11th of July 2026, Jimmy posts, no upload today, may or may not be getting married
09:27and a little occupied.
09:29Fans go into full meltdown.
09:30No announcement follows.
09:32It is Jimmy trolling.
09:33As of right now, they are currently hitched, still keeping the whole thing off camera.
09:37That is every woman MrBeast has ever publicly dated.
09:40Maddie Spital, the first love who became a cautionary tale.
09:4337 other women whose names we will probably never learn.
09:46And Thea Bugson, the South African neuroscientist who checked every box on a list she did not even
09:50know he was keeping.
09:51Drop a comment below telling me who you think will get invited to that secret island wedding
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