Irwin \u2013 who is the son of Terri and the late Steve Irwin \u2013 heaped praise on his partner Whitney for her \u201camazing\u201d work on Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWitney was amazing at changing up some of the moves that we had to do in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to change on the fly, but our last dance, that freestyle, was a way to say thank you to everybody who\u2019d been on that journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the Dancing with the Stars finale, Irwin detailed how his injury began to set in when he was rehearsing for the show, admitting it had been \u201cgetting worse progressively\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI\u2019ve been dealing with rib pain because the intercostal muscles of the ribs are under a lot of tension.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been getting worse progressively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite his injury, Irwin and Carson won the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy \u2013 an accolade previously won by his sister Bindi Irwin in 2015\u2019s season 21.<\/p>\n
Following his victory, Irwin said: \u201cThere is no one who deserves it more than Witney.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cShe gives everything. She balances so much. She is an absolute inspiration to me and to so many people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irwin also said how his sister\u2019s win was special as she used her victory to raise awareness and spread the message about their family\u2019s charity Australia Zoo and Wildlife Warriors.<\/p>\n
He told People: \u201cIt\u2019s about making the world a better place. And when I watched her lift that Mirrorball, I saw her lifting that message.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bindi has since congratulated her brother on his Dancing with the Stars win on Instagram.<\/p>\n
She wrote: \u201cTWO MIRRORBALLS NOW CALL AUSTRALIA ZOO HOME!<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations and all the love in the world to Robert and Whitney. What. A. Night.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irwin \u2013 who is the son of Terri and the late Steve Irwin \u2013 heaped praise on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[74,430,7502,156,71,8455,15258,62338,111,139,69,26884,103773,3046,5436,223,684,9087,102],"class_list":["post-156795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-celebrities","tag-dancing","tag-entertainment","tag-from","tag-getting","tag-injury","tag-irwin","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recovering","tag-rib","tag-robert","tag-stars","tag-the","tag-there","tag-triumph","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}