Elena Yates

Yates attended the College of Charleston from 2020 to 2024 and graduated in May 2024 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. During college, she was a member of Tri Delta, joining the sorority in October 2020 and helping raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Yates comes from a family of six siblings. Her sisters are Ava and Jaina, and her brothers are Anthony, Winston and Craig.

Yates built an audience on TikTok through cooking videos, clothing hauls, travel posts and get-ready-with-me content. She posted her first TikTok in March 2020, and one of her popular videos showed how to make a low-calorie salad. Her account has received more than 110,000 fans and millions of likes.

Her marketing work includes social media collaborations with fashion and beauty brands. She has also worked as a commission sales associate and social media ambassador for LoveShackFancy, promoting products through TikTok and Instagram. In 2024, she recreated Troy and Gabriella’s “Now or Never” duet from High School Musical at a Ravens game.

Yates and Mark Andrews began dating in the summer of 2023, about a week after her 21st birthday. She said they went out to dinner, hit it off and began a relationship. Yates first hinted at the romance through TikTok posts featuring photos of the couple, including a kiss, before confirming the relationship in October 2023.

The couple regularly appeared together on her social-media accounts, where Andrews featured in videos of them dancing, kissing and preparing for Ravens games. Andrews attended Yates’s College of Charleston graduation in May 2024 with members of her family, while Yates supported him at Ravens games and after the team’s AFC Championship loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in January 2024.

Andrews proposed in November 2025, and the couple announced their engagement during Thanksgiving weekend. Yates shared that she looked forward to marrying him.