{"id":239200,"date":"2025-10-25T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239200\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:13:10","slug":"robert-irwins-shock-as-he-is-surprised-by-wickeds-jonathan-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239200\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin’s shock as he is surprised by Wicked’s Jonathan Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Irwin<\/a> got the surprise of his life<\/a> when he received a special delivery from a famous “secret admirer”.<\/p>\n

In a video posted to his Instagram<\/a>, Irwin’s Dancing With The Stars partner \ufeffWhitney Carson, 32, brought a large bouquet of flowers that had been delivered to Irwin into the rehearsal room.<\/p>\n

When Irwin, 21, read who the delivery was from he couldn’t contain his excitement \ufeffand literally jumped around the room in joy.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"RobertRobert Irwin was delivered flowers from a famous “secret admirer”. (Instagram\/ @robertirwinphotography)<\/p>\n

“Those are beautiful, who are these from?” Irwin said as Carson brought the flowers to him.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know check the note, do you have a secret admirer that I don’t know about?\ufeff” Carson joked as he admired the flowers.<\/p>\n

Irwin then opened the card and his jaw dropped to the floor when he discovered it was from the actor Jonathan Bailey who stars as Fiyero in the 2024 Wicked film and the upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good.<\/p>\n

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\"RobertIrwin’s jaw dropped when he read who the gift was from. (Instagram\/ @robertirwinphotography)<\/p>\n

Bailey’s gift for the Aussie ‘Wildlife Warrior’ comes after his performance of Wicked’s Dancing Through Life.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBailey performs the same song in the Wicked movie as Fiyero alongside Ariana Grande’s Glinda.<\/p>\n

“You are the shiz Robert. You’ve done all the Fiyero’s proud\ufeff. Cheering you on from afar. Big love J.B.” Bailey wrote in the card.<\/p>\n

\"WickedThe gift came after Irwin and Carson’s performance of Dancing Through Life on Dancing With The Stars. (Instagram\/@robertirwinphotography)<\/p>\n

After reading out the note allowed, Irwin let out his excitement screaming, “What!” as he jumped around the room.<\/p>\n

\ufeffLater he said: “This has made my day, thank you so much Jonathan”.<\/p>\n

Posting the video of the moment<\/a> to his Instagram, Irwin echoed his gratitude to the Wicked actor.\ufeff<\/p>\n

“Thank you so much [Jonathan Bailey],” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“What a cool surprise, it was an honour to play Fiyero for the night!”<\/p>\n

\ufeffBailey simply reacted with two heart emojis.<\/p>\n

\ufeffEarlier this week, Irwin and Carson took to the Dancing With The Stars stage on the latest episode which had a Wicked theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their choreography took inspiration from the dance number in the Wicked movie adaptation, with Irwin sliding across the stage on a book like Bailey does.<\/p>\n

The judges loved it, giving the pair their highest score yet: 36\/40.<\/p>\n

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