Robert Irwin broke down in tears over a newly unveiled wax statue of his late father, Steve Irwin.
The zookeeper modified into visibly overcome by emotion when he considered the statue for the first time at a Madame Tussauds wax museum in Sydney, Australia.
“That’s amazing,” Robert, 20, talked about at a press convention to trace the waxwork’s debut. “Well, it’s the first time in a long time that he’s not just a picture. That’s a spin-out.”
He later admitted he had no longer expected the statue to pack such an emotional punch.
“I didn’t think that was gonna happen, but I was actually quite emotional,” Robert instructed Australian breakfast TV demonstrate, Crack of dawn.
“Dad, 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.”
Steve, a celeb zookeeper and conservationist, died in 2006 at the age of 44 when he modified into barbed by a stingray whereas filming on Australia’s Tall Barrier Reef. Robert modified into valid below three years earlier school at the time.
A statue of Robert modified into published on the same day – and it elicited a less emotionally charged reaction.
“This is one of the most surreal moments of my entire life,” he instructed Crack of dawn. “This is just incredible. I just keep looking at every little bit going, ‘It’s me! It is me!’ I don’t know if the world is ready for two of me.”
