Archive for the 'Steve Irwin' Category
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Terri Irwin is reportedly hoping to communicate with her late husband Steve when psychic John Edwards visits the Australia Zoo next month.
Apparently, Terri thinks Edward’s has “a real gift” and has invited everyone who’s a skeptic to the show on January 5.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007

A year after his death,Steve Irwin has been commemorated on a stamp.
Irwin, killed by a stingray while filming on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, had spent years performing death-defying feats with dangerous animals.
The stamp, which pictures Irwin with his daughter Bindi, son Bob and a snake, went on sale on Monday.
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007

Organizers of the first annual Steve Irwin Day, on November 15, are hoping to convince officials to make it a public holiday, or at least making it mandatory to wear khaki.
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Friday, June 8th, 2007

Eight-year-old Bindi Irwin follows in the footsteps of her father, Steve, in her first special, My Daddy The Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet tonight at 9pm. The show is a prelude to her new series, Bindi: The Jungle Girl , which begins tomorrow at 5 p.m. on the Discovery Kids.
Apparently, Steve Irwin is in about 80% of series. Creepy.
Monday, January 15th, 2007

Terri Irwin traded her khakis in for a little black number Saturday as she walked the red carpet at the annual G’day USA Australia Week gala in Hollywood, stealing the spotlight from stars like Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, and even The Wiggles. Terri accepted a lifetime achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was killed by a stingray in September.
Meanwhile, Bindi performed with the Croc Men at the event…

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Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Terri Irwin told Access Hollywood in an interview airing this week that all the footage over her late husband Steve’s death has been destroyed. The completed “Ocean’s Deadliest”, minus footage from the day Irwin was killed, would air in the US on Jan. 21.
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Steve Irwin’s wife Terri was given the footage of her husband’s death after authorities broke with protocol to ensure it didn’t get into the wrong hands. All copies of the film, which shows Irwin being stabbed in the heart by a stingray, have been destroyed. The coronial investigation is almost complete and the footage was handed to Terri Irwin just before Christmas. Apparently, some people were willing to pay up to $1 million for it.
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Death is always a good career move. Toymakers are planning to immortalise Steve Irwin by launching a range of action figures of the popular Crocodile Hunter. Wild Republic, a division of wildlife toy manufacturers K&M International, has teamed up with Steve’s beloved Australia Zoo and the Irwin family to develop 39 products, which will be launched at the International Toy Fair in New York in February.
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Friday, December 1st, 2006

The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will simultaneously air Steve Irwin’s last TV project Oceans Deadliest on January 21. Irwin was killed while shooting the show with Phillipe Cousteau. Cousteau, who was aboard Irwin’s boat during the expedition, narrates the 90 minute documentary.
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006

When Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray there was a lot of fuss over whether the video of the death should be broadcast. The National Enquirer is now claiming that a bootleg copy of the video was made before it went under lock and key and that the video could demand huge amounts of money if it’s legit.
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