The Ocean’s Deadliest airs January 21st on the Animal Planet channel at 8:00pm EST. This is the show that cost Steve his life.
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Steve Irwins’ Ocean Deadliest on Air
Posted in Bindi Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin on January 5, 2007| 7 Comments »
‘Crocodile Hunter’ believed he would die early
Posted in Bindi Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin on September 28, 2006| 3 Comments »
‘Crocodile Hunter’ believed he would die early, but not from an animal, widow says
Steve Irwin was fearless when it came to the dangerous animals he caged, cajoled and caroused with as television’s “Crocodile Hunter.” And while he never thought they would get him, he always felt he would die early.
“I thought he would fall out of a tree. He thought it would be a car accident,” Irwin’s widow, Terri, said in her first interview since the star and conservationist died Sept. 4 in a stingray attack.
She described the painful moment when, while she was on a trip with the couple’s daughter, Bindi, 8, and son, Bob, 2, to the southern island state of Tasmania, she contacted Irwin’s brother Frank, after receiving an urgent message.
“He said there been a diving accident with Steve,” she said. “It really broadsided me when he told me what happened, and I’m immediately thinking, ‘How am I going to get to him?’ And I am also thinking, ‘Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it.’ And he said it, he said those three words: ‘and he died.’ And I felt myself explode inside.”
Terri Irwin said her husband would have been devastated if anyone thought badly of any animal that had inadvertently harmed him. In the days after his death, a number of stingrays were found dead – their barbed tails chopped off – on the beaches of the northeastern state of Queensland, where the Great Barrier Reef is located.
“It was a complete and total accident,” Terri Irwin said. “It was running with scissors, you know? They tell you never run with scissors because this will happen, and it never happens. It was a crazy accident, that’s all.”
Terri Irwin Speaks About Steve Irwin’s Death For The First Time
Posted in Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Tribute on September 26, 2006| 44 Comments »
Steve Irwin’s widow Terri has spoken for the first time about her husband’s untimely death earlier this month.
She told Good Morning America of the moment she heard about his death, saying: “Steve’s friend and manager John Stainton rang.”
“He said, ‘There’s been a diving accident with Steve’ and I thought, ‘Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it’ and he said it. He said those three words, ‘Steve is dead’.”
She admitted that she is still coming to terms with the Crocodile Hunters death and thanked the public for their “thoughts and prayers”.
She then went on to talk about last week’s memorial service, saying: “I walked into the Crocoseum and I knew people would be missing Steve but the feelings of love and support from Australians was just overwhelming.”
“He would have said, ‘Crikey, mate, I can’t believe this’.”
Bindi Irwin’s Tribute To her Father…
Posted in Bindi Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, Tribute on September 21, 2006| 142 Comments »
My daddy was my hero.
I know that Daddy had an important job.
He was working to change the world
so everyone would love wildlife like he didBrave Bindi even said she will film the same giant fish who killed her father when she presents her own wildlife TV show ‘Jungle Girl’, scheduled to air in January.
Steve Irwin’s brave little daughter, Bindi, got a standing ovation after delivering a eulogy to her father today.
Watched by her mother, Terri, brother Bob, and about 5000 mourners at the Crocoseum at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, the eight-year-old spoke with remarkable clarity and assurance.
Smiling and reading her own tribute from a sheet of paper in front of an image of her dad, she said: “My daddy was my hero – he was always there for me when I needed him.”
She traced the words on the paper with a finger.
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