Robert Irwin Says His 'Alarm Clock Is Tigers Roaring' as He Reveals He Lives 'In the Middle' of Australia Zoo Among the Wildlife
Robert Irwin Says His 'Alarm Clock Is Tigers Roaring' as He Reveals He Lives 'In the Middle' of Australia Zoo Among the Wildlife
Escher WalcottWed, June 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM UTC
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During a Tuesday, June 16, appearance on Australian radio, Robert Irwin revealed he lives inside Australia Zoo and wakes up to tigers roaring every morning
The 22-year-old joked about visitors being able to watch him drink coffee from behind a fence at his home
Robert is balancing conservation work in Australia with hosting the Dancing with the Stars spinoff The Next Pro in the U.S.
Robert Irwin has a very surprising neighbor at his home in Australia!
While appearing on the Jase, Lauren and Clint radio show on Tuesday, June 16, the conservationist and son of the late Steve Irwin, 22, revealed that he lives in his own quarters at Australia Zoo among the wildlife, with a very startling wake-up call every morning.
"Seriously, like I live in the middle of it all. It's really quite cool — My alarm clock in the morning is the tigers next door roaring," he told the radio hosts.
Host Lauren Phillips asked Robert, "Do you walk around the Australia Zoo and go, 'That's Robert Irwin's house?' "
"Yeah, there's like a little fence up and glass and you can come and watch as I have my morning coffee," Robert joked, before the hosts quipped that he's like "an exhibit" at the zoo and the situation is a little like the show Big Brother.
The Dancing with the Stars season 34 winner revealed to PEOPLE in May that he was returning home to Australia for a few weeks, before coming back to the U.S. to host the DWTS spinoff Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro.
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"Next, I'm heading back to what I would refer to as my day job, which is conservation," said Robert. "So I'll be back in Australia for a few weeks in the middle of nowhere, then I'm straight on to London to do a big climate change summit, and then I'm back in the States over the summer to roll out The Next Pro."
The upcoming series, which airs in July, is searching for the next professional dancer to join the franchise.
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Robert said that he is grateful for the opportunity of being on the reality show, which has, in return, brought awareness to his conservation work.
"Being on DWTS was life-changing in that I can now reach more and more people with that messaging," he told PEOPLE. "But it also gave me so many epiphanies and helped me express parts of my life that I never really addressed before."
"It's like this time where I'm just trying to pick projects that fill me with that real sense of joy," he added in the interview.
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