Robert Irwin (conservationist)

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Robert Irwin
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Irwin in 2024
Born
Robert Clarence Irwin

(2003-12-01) 1 December 2003 (age 22)
Buderim, Queensland, Australia
Other names
  • Bob Irwin
  • Baby Bob
Citizenship
  • Australia
  • United States
Occupations
Years active2004–present
Parents
Relatives
Website robertirwinphotos.com

Robert Clarence Irwin (born 1 December 2003) is an Australian conservationist, television personality, wildlife photographer, and actor. The son of conservationists Steve and Terri Irwin, he manages Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland, and is frequently involved in activities that his father originally participated in.

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Irwin starred in and co-produced the Animal Planet television series Crikey! It's the Irwins (2018–2022) with his mother and older sister, Bindi. He currently co-hosts the Network 10 program I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here alongside Julia Morris, which earned him a Logie Award nomination for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. In 2025, Irwin won the thirty-fourth season of the American competition series Dancing with the Stars alongside Witney Carson.

Early life

Robert Clarence Irwin was born on 1 December 2003 in Buderim, Queensland. [1] His father, Steve Irwin (1962–2006), was an Australian conservationist best known for his wildlife documentary series The Crocodile Hunter (1996–2004). [2] Steve owned and operated Australia Zoo with his wife Terri Irwin ( née  Raines), an American zoologist from Eugene, Oregon. [3] Irwin was named after his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Bob Irwin and Clarence Raines. [4] He has an older sister, Bindi, who is also a conservationist and television personality. [5] The siblings are dual citizens of Australia and the United States, [6] and are of English, Irish, and Swedish descent. [7]

Irwin was blessed by Tibetan Buddhist nuns during a ceremony held by his parents on 2 January 2004 at Australia Zoo. [8] That same day, his father carried him in his arm while hand feeding a chicken carcass to a 3.8-metre (12 ft 6 in) saltwater crocodile, named Murray. [9] Irwin was close to the reptile, which sparked international media outrage and brought comparisons to the singer Michael Jackson dangling his son outside of a hotel window one year prior. [10] The incident prompted the Queensland Government to change its crocodile handling laws, banning children and untrained adults from entering crocodile enclosures. [11] Special dispensation, however, was granted to a child who met a very strict set of guidelines and training requirements. [11]

When Irwin was two years old, his father was killed by a stingray barb injury to the heart while filming an underwater documentary. [12] He was homeschooled at Australia Zoo for his entire education, allowing flexibility for his wildlife and media commitments. [13] Irwin developed an interest in photography partly through his father; [14] he found it to be an "individual" way of continuing his work. [15] He started taking photographs when he was six years old using a point-and-shoot camera and later received his first DSLR, the Canon EOS 700D. [16] He graduated high school with two TAFE certificates when he was fifteen years old. [17]

Career

2004–2013: Early beginnings

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Irwin in 2011

Irwin made his television debut during his parents' appearance on the interview program Enough Rope with Andrew Denton in March 2004. [18] He made two appearances on his sister's television series Bindi the Jungle Girl (2007–2008), [19] and had an uncredited cameo role in the family film Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove . [20] At the age of eight, following extensive training, Irwin was allowed to feed alligators and freshwater crocodiles for the first time under expert supervision. [21] [22]

In March 2013, Irwin earned his first Logie Award nomination for Most Popular New Male Talent for his role on the Network 10 program Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors . [23] He also released a series of children's books titled Dinosaur Hunter, which he provided illustrations and co-authored with Lachlan Creag and Jack Wells. [24] Irwin was involved in a six-year campaign, led by his mother, to prevent bauxite strip mining at the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve on the Cape York Peninsula. [25] The Queensland Government passed legislation to protect the reserve from mining in November. [26]

2014–2017: Rise to prominence

On his tenth birthday, Irwin fed his first large saltwater crocodile, named Monty, at the Australia Zoo's Crocoseum. [27] He was supervised and assisted by Wes Mannion, the zoo's director and his late father's best friend. [27] Irwin made his television hosting debut alongside Isabel Yamazaki on the Discovery Asia-Pacific science program Wild But True (2014–2015), which explored biomimetics. [28] The program was nominated for Best Kids: Factual at the 5th International Emmy Kids Awards. [29] Irwin made a guest appearance on the second season of the British documentary series Ten Deadliest Snakes with Nigel Marven . [30] He was named the junior runner-up of Australian Geographic 's 2016 Nature Photography of the Year competition for his image of a large male saltwater crocodile resting on a riverbank in Northern Queensland. [31] [32]

Beginning in February 2017, Irwin made regular appearances on the NBC late-night program The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . [33] [34] He made eleven appearances on the show in a span of two years and found success with American television viewers by presenting various animals to host Jimmy Fallon and comedian Kevin Hart. [35] [36] Irwin was invested as a member and ambassador of Scouts Australia on 6 April 2017, [37] formalising a partnership between the organisation and Australia Zoo that aimed to encourage Australian youth to get involved with wilderness and conservation. [38] [39] Irwin was a junior finalist for Australian Geographic's 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year competition. [40] His image of a young spotted python slithering in the bushland of the Cape York Peninsula was exhibited at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide and the Australian Museum in Sydney. [40]

2018–2019: Photography recognition and Crikey! It's the Irwins

In April 2018, Irwin and his family unveiled his father's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and met with Charles, Prince of Wales at Lady Elliot Island to discuss the future of the Great Barrier Reef. [41] [42] He was named a junior finalist for Australian Geographic's 2018 Nature Photographer of the Year competition with his image of a sunset at the Great Dividing Range. [43] In October, Irwin started running Australia Zoo's daily crocodile feeding demonstrations; a job previously held by his father. [44] He also starred in and co-produced the Animal Planet television program Crikey! It's the Irwins alongside his mother and sister. [45] The series, like The Crocodile Hunter franchise, followed the family and their work at Australia Zoo across four seasons. [45]

For capturing a tundra swan at the Klamath Basin in Oregon, Irwin was highly honoured in the youth category at the 2018 Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards and was exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. [46] His image of a huntsman spider in mid-air while clutching a dead frog was highly commended in the youth category at the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards. [47]

Two of Irwin's photographs, featuring an Eurasian dotterel and an emu, were commended in the youth category at the 2019 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards. [48] He was named a junior finalist for Australian Geographic's 2019 Nature Photographer of the Year competition with his image of a bearded dragon camouflaging on a log in Blackbutt, Queensland. [49] Two of his photographs were highly honoured at the 2019 Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards; one image featured one of the last known northern white rhinoceroses in the world at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. [50] The Queensland Tourism Industry Council declared Irwin their Young Achiever of the Year, in recognition of his contributions to "the development of a vibrant and professional tourism industry." [51]

2020–2024: I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Annastacia Palaszczuk, the premier of Queensland, recruited Irwin for a domestic tourism campaign encouraging Australians to spend their holiday at the state. [52] He was named the junior runner-up for Australian Geographic's 2020 Nature Photographer of the Year competition with his close-up image of an Australian scrub python. [53] Irwin won the People's Choice Award at the 2020 Wildlife Photography of the Year Awards for capturing a large bushfire burning near the border of the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve during Australia's Black Summer. [54] The image was exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London. [55]

Irwin made a guest appearance on the animated television series Bluey in February 2021 as a dingo retail clerk named Alfie. [56] While filming for the fourth and final season of Crikey! It's the Irwins, Irwin had to make an emergency escape from a crocodile enclosure after a 3.7-metre-long (12 ft), 350-kilogram (770 lb) saltwater crocodile, named Casper, ignored the food Irwin was offering him and instead made a beeline for Irwin himself. [57] He managed to scale the enclosure walls just in time and avoided injury. [57] Irwin made a surprise performance with the original members of the children's music group The Wiggles at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in May 2022. [58] He published his first photo book, Robert Irwin's Australia, in October; all proceeds were directed towards wildlife conservation. [59]

In October 2023, Irwin replaced Chris Brown as the co-host of the Network 10 television program I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! , hosting alongside Julia Morris. [60] He agreed to host under the condition that the series stopped using wildlife products. [61] For his inagural season, Irwin was nominated for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television and the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter at the Logie Awards of 2024. [62] [63] He was also recognised by Mediaweek as a rising star in Australia's advertising, media and marketing industries. [64] In September 2024, he and South African actress Nomzamo Mbatha were named the first two global ambassadors for the Earthshot Prize, launched by William, Prince of Wales and David Attenborough. [65]

2025–present: Dancing with the Stars

In April 2025, Irwin was announced as the first contestant on the thirty-fourth season of the American competition series Dancing with the Stars . [66] By May, he assumed a managerial role at Australia Zoo and was named to the board of directors of its non-profit organisation Wildlife Warriors. [67] Irwin starred in the second chapter of Tourism Australia's Come and Say G'day campaign, which launched in key international markets in August. [68] It amassed over 374 million views worldwide and was effective in drawing positive interest from potential tourists. [69]

On Dancing with the Stars, Irwin was partnered with professional dancer Witney Carson; [70] he later competed in a jive relay with actress Xochitl Gomez. [71] Their foxtrot routine to "Footprints in the Sand" by Leona Lewis made them the first individual couple of the season to earn a perfect score. [72] Despite Irwin suffering a rib cage injury prior to the finale, the couple won the competition on 25 November 2025. [73] Irwin is the first Australian male contestant to win the series and, at age 21, is the youngest male winner so far. Additionally, as his sister won the twenty-first season with professional dancer Derek Hough, they became the first celebrity sibling duo to be crowned champions. [74]

Notes
  1. ↑ Individual judges' scores are listed in the following order: Carrie Ann Inaba, Derek Hough, Bruno Tonioli.
  2. ↑ Robert and Witney only received two judges's scores, as Carrie Ann Inaba was absent.
  3. ↑ Robert and Witney also received a score of 9 from guest judge Kym Johnson.
  4. ↑ Robert and Witney also received a score of 9 from guest judge Jon M. Chu.
  5. ↑ Robert and Witney also received a score of 9 from guest judge Cheryl Burke.
  6. ↑ Robert and Witney received three bonus points in this dance marathon.
  7. ↑ Robert and Witney also received a score of 10 from guest judge Flavor Flav.
  8. ↑ Team Kool also received a score of 10 from guest judge Flavor Flav.
  9. ↑ Robert and Witney also received a score of 10 from guest judge Tom Bergeron.
  10. ↑ Robert received two bonus points for winning this dance relay with celebrity partner Xochitl Gomez.

Public image

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Irwin holding a koala in 2022

Irwin spent his entire life in the public eye due to his parents' celebrity status. [75] His birth was televised on the third and final season of their wildlife documentary series The Crocodile Hunter Diaries . [76] From a young age, media outlets noticed that Irwin bore an uncanny resemblance in physical appearance, [77] personality, [78] and mannerisms to his late father. [79] The press began commenting on Irwin's sex appeal and labelled him as a sex symbol when he transitioned into adulthood. [80] [81] Although he disagreed with the label, he espoused it to further promote environmentalism. [82]

Dean Blake of Man of Many wrote that Irwin's charisma, effervescence, and comfortability in front of a camera allowed him to be "one of the most genuine and authentic voices in wildlife conservation." [75] Talent agencies called him a "publicist's dream" and compared him to a live action Ken doll, "except with a brain, soul and gorgeous heart." [83] Ashley Spencer for The New York Times complimented the way Irwin embraced his emotional vulnerability, noting that he "makes no attempt to appear cool or aloof. He often throws his head back in full-throated laughter, and he gleefully celebrates everyone around him." [84] The Australian 's Jenna Clarke echoed her sentiments and opined that Irwin should be used as a yardstick for modern masculinity. [83] Patrick Lenton of The Guardian wrote that while Dancing with the Stars is notable for rehabilitating benighted public figures, Irwin's appearances were a genuinely wholesome "shot of joy." [85] Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning Herald agreed, writing that his experience offered "an extremely positive story in an otherwise overwhelmingly negative news cycle." [86]

Irwin and his sister were honoured by Time on their inaugural list of the world's most influential emerging stars. [87] Mediaweek named him the third-most influential Australian across social media platforms in 2023. [88] The next year, Irwin became the third man in modern times to appear solo on the cover of The Australian Women's Weekly , [89] joining Hugh Jackman and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. [90] At age 20, Irwin became the youngest Australian to be immortalised with a wax figure by Madame Tussauds Sydney. [91]

Personal life

Irwin resides on the private grounds of Australia Zoo with his family. [92] He considers himself to be a spiritual person, and finds the most solace from being in nature. [84] Irwin was in a relationship with Rorie Buckey, the niece of actor Heath Ledger, from November 2022 to February 2024. [93] He is a supporter of LGBTQ rights, and has spoken publicly about women's health issues. [84]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2010 Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove The Pirate Boy (uncredited)Cameo role [20]
2015 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Kyle the Seagull (voice)Australian edition only [94]
2025 Zootopia 2 Robert Furwin (voice)Cameo role [95]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2007–2008 Bindi the Jungle Girl Himself2 episodes; credited as Bob Irwin
2011 Kate Plus 8 Episode: "Australia Zoo Visit"
2012 Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors Host alongside Bindi Irwin
2014 Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures Foreign exchange student from AustraliaEpisodes: "Dino Pals" and "Dino Mommas"
2015 Ten Deadliest Snakes HimselfEpisode: "Australia"
2017–2019 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest appearance; 13 episodes
2018–2022 Crikey! It's the Irwins Main cast; also co-producer
2019–2022 The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest appearance; 5 episodes
2020 Bluey Alfie (voice)Guest role (S2E37)
Sesame Street HimselfGuest appearance; 1 episode
Earth to Ned Episode: "A Ned's Best Friend"
2021Irwin Family AdventuresAlso co-producer
2022 RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Guest appearance (S2E1)
Kurt Fearnley's One Plus One Episode: "Robert Irwin" [96]
Have You Been Paying Attention? Guest quizmaster (S10E25)
2024–present I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Host alongside Julia Morris
2025 Dancing with the Stars Season 34 champion [66]
Appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
DateAnimals
16 February 2017 [97] Dwarf crocodile, screaming hairy armadillo, red-tailed boa, two-toed sloth
20 April 2017 [98] [99] [100] Scorpion, two baby black bears, two legless lizards, binturong, green aracari
7 June 2017 [101] Baby American badger, 100-year-old alligator snapping turtle and a baby one, baby red kangaroo (joey), [102] three baby warthogs
23 November 2017 [103] Tamandua, two leopard cubs, prehensile-tailed porcupine, albino Burmese python
25 January 2018 [104] Beaver, tarantula, baby muntjac, hyacinth macaw
2 May 2018 [105] Six American Pygmys, kookaburra, capybara, American alligator
19 September 2018 [106] Baby ostrich, two kingsnakes, tarantula, lanner falcon (with Kevin Hart)
22 November 2018 [107] Two baby Asian small-clawed otters, two baby crested porcupines, aardvark, baby zebra
23 January 2019 [108] Sugar glider, peppered cockroaches, three baby servals, dromedary
25 February 2019 [109] Asian water monitor, owl, American Shorthair
30 April 2019 [110] Giant African millipede, miniature horse, mandrill

Accolades

AwardYear [a] Nominated workCategoryResultRef.
AACTA Awards 2025 IrwinFavourite Australian Media PersonalityWon [111]
2026 Pending
Logie Awards 2013 Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors Most Popular New Male Talent Nominated [23]
2024 I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Most Popular Personality on Australian Television Nominated [112]
Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter Nominated
Shorty Awards 2020 IrwinBest in Activism (shared with Bindi Irwin)Nominated [113]
  1. ↑ Indicates the year of ceremony. Each year is linked to the article about the awards held that year, wherever possible.

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