{"id":87770,"date":"2024-11-28T23:50:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/robert-irwin-nearly-tears-up-seeing-late-dad-steve-irwins-wax-figure\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T23:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:50:55","slug":"robert-irwin-nearly-tears-up-seeing-late-dad-steve-irwins-wax-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/robert-irwin-nearly-tears-up-seeing-late-dad-steve-irwins-wax-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irwin Nearly Tears Up Seeing Late Dad Steve Irwin&#8217;s Wax Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/robert_irwin\"><strong>Robert Irwin<\/strong><\/a> is remembering his dad <strong>Steve Irwin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The son of the late zookeeper and conservationist became visibly emotional as he stood next to his dad\u2019s wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Sydney, Australia, for the very first time, fighting tears as he addressed reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is amazing,\u201d Robert said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@news.com.au\/video\/7442140741289266440\">TikTok<\/a> video posted by News.com.au Nov. 28. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time in a long time that he\u2019s not just a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, the 20-year-old explained why seeing the figure of his father\u2014who died at age 44 after a 2006 stingray attack\u2014was such a poignant moment for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think that was gonna happen, but I was actually quite emotional,\u201d he told Australian morning show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=9290864267591023\"><em>Sunrise<\/em><\/a>. \u201cDad, for the last 17 years of my life, has been pictures and video, and to actually see him kind of just standing there, it was a lot. It was actually a lot to take in, and it was a really beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1410566\/why-robert-irwin-fought-back-tears-after-seeing-late-dad-steve-irwins-wax-figure?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Irwin is remembering his dad Steve Irwin. The son of the late zookeeper and conservationist became visibly emotional as he stood next to his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}