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Robert Clarence Irwin (born 1 December 2003) is an Australian conservationist, wildlife photographer, and television personality.
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.
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 entertainment program I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here alongside Julia Morris, which earned him Logie Award nominations for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television and Most Popular Presenter.
Irwin also 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 at Australia Zoo one month after he was born.[8] Moments later, 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.