Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin shares his love of wildlife through animal encounters, nature photography and television, carrying on his family’s conservation work at Australia Zoo.
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Known for
- Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro2026 · Host
ABC - Dancing with the Stars2025 · Season 34 winner
ABC - Robert Irwin’s Australia2022 · Photography book
- Bushfire2020 competition · People’s Choice winning photograph
Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Crikey! It’s the Irwins2018 · Appears with his family
Animal Planet
Overview
- Born
- 1 December 2003
- Home base
- Australia Zoo, Queensland
- Work
- Wildlife conservationist, photographer and television presenter
- Early screen work
- Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors and Wild But True
- Wider audience
- The Tonight Show animal appearances from 2017; Crikey! It’s the Irwins from 2018
Mini bio
Growing up with wildlife.
Robert is the son of Steve and Terri Irwin and grew up around the family’s conservation work. Australia Zoo remains his home base, where he takes part in crocodile demonstrations and works alongside his family through Wildlife Warriors.
Finding his audience.
His early projects included Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors, co-hosting Wild But True and helping create and illustrate the Dinosaur Hunter books. Regular animal appearances on The Tonight Show began in 2017. In 2018, Crikey! It’s the Irwins brought viewers into the family’s zoo work and wildlife expeditions.
A story through a lens.
Photography became another way for Robert to bring attention to wild places. His drone photograph Bushfire won the People’s Choice Award in the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, announced in February 2021. His 2022 book Robert Irwin’s Australia collects his photography of the country.
From the zoo to the ballroom.
Robert also co-hosts I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! with Julia Morris. He won Dancing with the Stars with Witney Carson in 2025, then hosted its new competition The Next Pro in 2026. Alongside television, he serves as a Global Ambassador for The Earthshot Prize.
Creditschronological, newest first
Television and film
- 2026Dancing with the Stars: The Next ProHost
- 202666th TV WEEK Logie AwardsHost
- 2025Zootopia 2Voice cast
- 2025Dancing with the Stars, season 34Contestant and winner with Witney Carson
- 2024–2026I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! AustraliaCo-host with Julia Morris
- 2018Crikey! It’s the IrwinsAppears as himself with Terri and Bindi Irwin
- 2017The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonBegan regular animal guest appearances
- 2014Wild But TrueCo-host
- 2013Steve Irwin’s Wildlife WarriorsFeatured performer
Books and photography
- 2022Robert Irwin’s AustraliaPhotographer and author
- 2020BushfirePhotographer; Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice winner
- 2013Robert Irwin: Dinosaur HunterCo-creator and illustrator
Awards
- 2026 Bert Newton Award for Most Popular PresenterWon for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! at the TV WEEK Logie Awards.
- 2025 Dancing with the Stars championWon season 34 with professional partner Witney Carson.
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 People’s Choice AwardWon for Bushfire, his drone photograph of a forest fire in Queensland. The result was announced in February 2021.
- 2019 TIME 100 NextRecognised alongside sister Bindi for their conservation work.
Quotes
For me, nature photography is about telling a story to make a difference for the environment and our planet.Robert Irwin, quoted in BBC Wildlife / Discover Wildlife
Speaking after Bushfire won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award in February 2021.
Trivia
- Crocodiles are his favourite animal, according to his Australia Zoo biography.
- He helped create and illustrate the Robert Irwin: Dinosaur Hunter book series.
- He is a leading photography contributor to Australia Zoo’s Crikey! magazine.
- His Bushfire photograph was taken with a drone near the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve in Cape York, Queensland.
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