{"id":152276,"date":"2025-09-18T08:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:29:09","slug":"robert-irwin-has-a-lot-of-people-watching-dwts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152276\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin Has a Lot of People Watching \u2018DWTS\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019re not watching the 34th season of Dancing With the Stars for the showmances<\/a>, then you should probably be tuning in for Robert Irwin. The 21-year-old son of famed crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is turning out to be this season\u2019s No. 1 cutie (sorry, Dylan Efron<\/a>). After his first performance<\/a> last night, during which he leapt off a safari truck and bounded over his dance partner, Whitney Carson\u2019s, head to the tune of \u201cBorn to Be Wild,\u201d viewers are shocked, delighted, and publicly horny for the blond Australian. Suddenly, I\u2019m struck with the urge to tune in again next week. Is this the hottest DWTS has ever been?<\/p>\n

Until now, I knew DWTS as a show watched by moms nationwide. (Per the New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0the show\u2019s audience had a median age of 63.5 in 2022.) But thanks to Irwin\u2019s allure, hordes of vocal young women with TikTok accounts seem to be watching the new season. I wonder why? \u201cHe\u2019s so hot and sexy,\u201d one TikTok user captioned her post<\/a> of Irwin competing. Another gaggle of girls filmed their live reactions<\/a> to his dancing and immediately asked one another if the woman the camera panned to was his girlfriend \u2014 it was in fact his sister, Bindi, who won season 21.<\/p>\n

oh this Robert Irwin ad is diabolical and i looooove it #DWTS<\/a> \ud83e\udea9 pic.twitter.com\/68pRRycwaK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 toast thoughts \ud83d\ude36\u200d\ud83c\udf2b\ufe0f (@scoobydoesnt) September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems like DWTS fans aren\u2019t the only ones waking up to Irwin\u2019s allure. ABC ran<\/a> Irwin\u2019s viral Calvin Klein\u2013esque underwear ad<\/a> for the Australian brand Bonds from earlier this year in the middle of the episode. One TikTok user posted a clip<\/a> of the commercial, declaring \u201cCRIKEY\u201d in all caps. Amen.<\/p>\n

Irwin previously told People<\/a> he\u2019s \u201cat this point in my life where I\u2019m trying to do as many different and random exciting things\u201d as he can, and it looks like vying for the DWTS mirrorball is one of them. Luck \u2014 and the votes of fangirls everywhere \u2014 will be on his side.<\/p>\n

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