Steve Irwin’s youngest son has revealed the secret of his late father to move around the Australian zoo without being detected, and the unexpected lesson he has learned from it.
It’s Robert Irwin like you’ve never seen before … and crikey looks good!
Now 18, the youngest son of beloved Australian crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, who died in 2006, has abandoned his characteristic khakis and posed for his first fashion session with Stellar magazine at Australian Zoo on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
In the extensive and sometimes emotional interview, Irwin revealed that he is both a fashion warrior and a wildlife warrior, saying Stellar he is already beginning to gain a reputation in his famous family as a style maker.
“I’ve actually become known as the fashionable Irwin,” she revealed with her iconic enthusiasm.
“My dad wasn’t exactly a fashion icon, but he was iconic just because he made khaki great.”
Robert says his interest in the transformative nature of clothing was actually something he took from his famous father who was famous at the rock star level in America.
“He had an alter ego named Glenn Glamor,” Robert confides.
“She wore false teeth, a wig, this ridiculous multicolored raincoat, the weirdest pants and some very splattered sneakers.
“And that’s how he moved around the zoo and no one would notice because he was just wearing the most ridiculous thing. So, ironically, the more exciting and experimental you are with your fashion, the less people will recognize you, at least for me. “
Robert, who was not even three years old when his father was killed at the age of 44 by a streak while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in 2006, also explained how he has felt his father’s absence with more intensity in the last two years.
“Because I’m entering adulthood, having turned 18 and navigating through that is hard enough [but] when you are in my situation and you don’t have a father figure to guide you, it’s very difficult. “
In March 2020, her sister was walking down the aisle when she married her longtime boyfriend Chandler Powell.
“Do this kind of thing and think,‘ That was Dad’s job. That wasn’t mine, ”he said.
He says Bindi now asks Robert to hurry up and find his special person as well.
“She says,‘ You’re 18, Robert, what’s going on? Take the pace! ‘”He laughs.
“At 18, she and Chandler had been together for a couple of years. So it happened pretty fast. [for Bindi to find love]. But this does not happen very often.
“So I’m still looking. I’m in no hurry. It’ll happen when it happens.”
The full interview and filming can be seen in The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA) this weekend.