Crikey! Zookeeper Robert Irwin strips down to his crocodile-hunters in new underwear ads

Robert Irwin is giving fans a peek astatine what’s usually unseen territory: The 21-year-old zookeeper is posing half-clad for an Australian underwear institution that’s launching its enactment successful the United States.

The conservationist, Aussie TV property and lad of the precocious “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin flashes immoderate superior musculus successful the caller Bonds ads, which see him posing with a snake, a spider and a lizard. In a fewer photos, he’s adjacent wearing shirts.

It’s a caller look for the usually khakis-clad Robert, who hadn’t adjacent turned 3 erstwhile his dada died successful 2006. In a freak accident, Steve Irwin died aft being pierced done the bosom by a usually chill stingray portion filming an underwater documentary successful a lagoon disconnected the Great Barrier Reef.

Robert Irwin told People that helium didn’t hesitate erstwhile helium was asked to beryllium the look — and the abs — of Bonds clothing. He would beryllium “representing Australia,” helium said.

“I’m astatine this constituent successful my beingness wherever I’m trying to bash arsenic galore antithetic and random breathtaking things, and if it’s thing that makes maine a small spot nervous, that I’ve ne'er done earlier and it’s a spot of an adrenaline rush? That’s what I privation to beryllium doing.”

He said helium was precise comfy moving with the critters during the photograph sprout but noted, “Getting your cogwheel disconnected is mode scarier than wrangling a croc!”

Among his different pursuits, Irwin is presently hosting the Australian incarnation of “I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!” on with Aussie comic Julia Morris, who has been that show’s co-host since 2015.

Irwin said that earlier the underwear sprout helium got “a batch of large tips” astir moving retired from household members including his parent and his brother-in-law, Chandler Powell, a erstwhile pro wakeboarder from Florida who joined sister Bindi successful March 2020.

Mom Terri Irwin was adjuvant because, helium said, she “actually did bodybuilding! She had much biceps past than I’ll ever have!”

Tkay Maidza, the Zimbabwean-born Aussie rapper known for the singles “Electric Feel” and “24K” and the medium “Sweet Justice,” is modeling the pistillate information of the Bonds enactment — with her apical fractional covered, caput you.