Shirtless Robert Irwin ‘sorry’ about wild dance
Another shirtless performance by Australian celebrity wildlife warrior Robert Irwin has been met with both excitement and cringe by dance judges and his family.
Robert Irwin has apologised to his mother for ripping his shirt off on Dancing With The Stars.
The 21-year-old star, whose parents are Terri Irwin and late Crocodile Hunter legend Steve Irwin, sent pulses racing when he flashed his six-pack on the dance competition, but now he has admitted Terri and his sister Bindi were watching in the studio at the time.
He quipped: “Sorry, guys, sorry about that!”
After his performance, he joked that the racy display was simply to give the costume team a break.
“We thought we’d take it easy on the costume department tonight,” he said.
“I said to (dance partner Witney Carson), ‘I want to bring out cool Robert’. I was like, ‘He’s in there somewhere. I want to bring him out!'”
The bold performance left the judges stunned, including Carrie Ann Inaba, who jokingly told him to get dressed.
“Robert Irwin is all grown up, wow, you’re making me feel like a grandmother,” she said. “Put your shirt back on. Great performance.”
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Meanwhile, Robert’s family are used to seeing him strip off in public after he posed in his boxers for a promotional shoot with Bonds, while he also went shirtless in his Dancing With The Stars announcement.
“There are some things as his sister that I can’t just unsee,” Bindi, 26, told host Kylie Kelce on the Not Gonna Lie podcast.
“When he did the Dancing announcement, he was shirtless, and when he did his Bonds commercial, he was just in his underwear, and it is … it is rough.”
Despite her embarrassment over her brother’s sudden viral sex appeal, she “really is so proud of him” because of how he is managing to get their message of conservation out there, which is what she is choosing to focus on.
