Plus, Robert tells TooFab solely who he would need to dance with and if he has discovered love after his viral underwear marketing campaign.
Robert Irwin is gearing as much as tackle an entire totally different type of beast… The Dancing with the Stars ballroom.
Celebrating the renewal of Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars at Hulu’s Get Actual occasion in Beverly Hills — which showcased one of the best of the streaming service’s actuality tv — ABC introduced the Australian wildlife conservationist is the primary movie star to hitch the solid as a dance competitor.
“I’m so excited,” Robert advised TooFab solely after the announcement.
“I am simply so honored and I can not wait to get caught in. We have made the announcement and I am prepared. Take me to the ballroom. I gotta work on my dance strikes. Dancing is certainly not in my repertoire. I dance with crocodiles. It is a totally different type of dancing, however… we’re gonna go for it!”
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“Bindi (Irwin)my sister, simply introduced it to an entire different degree,” Robert mentioned referring to his older sister who took house the Mirrorball along with her pro-dancer associate Derek Hough in Season 21, again in 2015.
“She’s so candy,” Robert mentioned earlier than sharing the recommendation she gave him. “She all the time goes, ‘Simply be your self. Do no matter you need to do, simply be you. Give it 100%. Begin feeling the music wherever you might be, simply begin type of fascinated with the rhythm of issues.'”
Robert was simply 11 years previous when Bindi was competing on the sequence however he recalled watching her “mild up” the ballroom flooring.
“I am so honored to get to maintain type of her legacy alive,” he added.
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Whereas Robert is used to the Australian wildlife the place he does a special type of dancing with crocodiles, he mentioned he’s nonetheless nervous for “all” of the dance classes.
“Folks ask me on a regular basis, ‘You are rescuing crocodiles or venomous snakes? It’s essential to get nervous.’ I am like, ‘Yeah. However dancing, that is an entire different degree of nerves,'” he shared.
“I am excited for a jive, although. I bear in mind Bindi describing a jive: you may simply give it your all and also you go, ‘da da da da.’ I do not know any of the phrases,” he mentioned whereas giving the jive a go.
As for who he has in thoughts for his pro-dancer associate, he would not thoughts following in his sister’s footsteps and dancing with Derek.
“I’d dance with Derek 100%,” Robert joked. “Spherical two. Possibly Derek’s all Irwin’d out at this level. I simply caught up with him. He is such a legend.”
“All the professionals are simply, they don’t seem to be solely the highest of their subject and simply the highest echelon athlete. They’re so all the way down to earth, such real folks and have an actual ardour for this. An actual real ardour. And I like being round passionate folks.”
Watch extra of TooFab’s interview with Robert above the place he shares if he has discovered love after he induced a world-wide phenomenon together with his steamy photoshoot with with Australian underwear label Bonds for its launch in America.
Dancing with the Stars will likely be again for Season 34 this fall with the date and full solid of celebrities to be introduced later.
