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When you’re not watching the thirty fourth season of Dancing With the Stars for the showmances, then it’s best to most likely be tuning in for Robert Irwin. The 21-year-old son of famed crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is popping out to be this season’s No. 1 cutie (sorry, Dylan Efron). After his first efficiency final evening, throughout which he leapt off a safari truck and bounded over his dance companion, Whitney Carson’s, head to the tune of “Born to Be Wild,” viewers are shocked, delighted, and publicly sexy for the blond Australian. Immediately, I’m struck with the urge to tune in once more subsequent week. Is that this the most well liked DWTS has ever been?
Till now, I knew DWTS as a present watched by mothers nationwide. (Per the New York Instances, the present’s viewers had a median age of 63.5 in 2022.) However because of Irwin’s attract, hordes of vocal younger girls with TikTok accounts appear to be watching the brand new season. I ponder why? “He’s so sizzling and attractive,” one TikTok consumer captioned her submit of Irwin competing. One other gaggle of ladies filmed their reside reactions to his dancing and instantly requested each other if the lady the digital camera panned to was his girlfriend — it was the truth is his sister, Bindi, who gained season 21.
oh this Robert Irwin advert is diabolical and that i looooove it #DWTS 🪩 pic.twitter.com/68pRRycwaK
— toast ideas 😶🌫️ (@scoobydoesnt) September 17, 2025
It looks like DWTS followers aren’t the one ones waking as much as Irwin’s attract. ABC ran Irwin’s viral Calvin Klein–esque underwear advert for the Australian model Bonds from earlier this 12 months in the midst of the episode. One TikTok consumer posted a clip of the business, declaring “CRIKEY” in all caps. Amen.
Irwin beforehand informed Individuals he’s “at this level in my life the place I’m making an attempt to do as many alternative and random thrilling issues” as he can, and it seems like vying for the DWTS mirrorball is considered one of them. Luck — and the votes of fangirls in all places — might be on his aspect.
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