{"id":287279,"date":"2025-10-08T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287279\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:24:10","slug":"robert-irwin-is-dedicating-dance-to-mom-terri-talks-joining-zootopia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287279\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin is dedicating dance to mom Terri, talks joining &#8216;Zootopia 2&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Irwin and Witney Carson are gearing up for dedication week on \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d season 34, and you might want to get your tissues ready.<\/p>\n<p>The wildlife conservationists revealed he will be paying tribute to his mom, Terri Irwin, and has something \u201creally cool planned\u201d for the special dance routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be dedicated to her, to someone who is just always there for me,\u201d he confirmed to our entertainment reporter Courtney Tezeno backstage during Disney night on the show. \u201cThe person who I just look up to so much, and who [has] shaped who I am today. And I&#8217;m very, very grateful for my mom, and I&#8217;m very grateful that we&#8217;re going to be honoring her and the legacy that she has created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Robert teased to us <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/entertainment\/robert-irwin-gets-chippendales-offer-in-vegas-pitch-sent-to-his-mom-terri-irwin#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/entertainment\/robert-irwin-gets-chippendales-offer-in-vegas-pitch-sent-to-his-mom-terri-irwin#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively that he might give Mama Terri her flowers<\/a> on the ballroom floor. Many fans online were suggesting songs for him to do that would pay tribute to his late father, Steve Irwin, aka \u201cthe Crocodile Hunter,\u201d who died in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see my mom as my biggest inspiration, and someone who has been there for myself and my sister through thick and thin,\u201d Robert told Tezeno in week 3. \u201cHer incredible grace, passion, and determination to keep my dad&#8217;s legacy alive is beyond admirable, but also to be there as such an incredible mum, an incredible business leader, she&#8217;s everything I would ever want to be in a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, everything I do here is to really continue a legacy that her and my dad started,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>During Disney night, Robert danced to a \u201cZootopia\u201d inspired Cha-cha and announced his debut into the Disney family as the koala named Robert Furwin in the upcoming \u201cZootopia 2\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m in a Disney movie,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is insane, like, little baby Robert dreamed of this, and I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a reality. And it was so fun that we got to kind of just bring that \u2018Zootopia\u2019 vibe into the ballroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET\/PT on ABC and Disney+, with next-day streaming on Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin and Witney Carson are gearing up for dedication week on \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d season 34,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50089,7299,171,25788,98800,146408,58592,173,67,132,68,44422,105186],"class_list":{"0":"post-287279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dancing-with-the-stars","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-legacy","12":"tag-robert-irwin","13":"tag-terri-irwin","14":"tag-tribute","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wildlife-conservation","20":"tag-zootopia-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115340185853833380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}