Bindi Irwin Going Strong
October 16, 2006 by staralicious
Filed under News
Bindi Irwin seems to be going from strength to strength since the death of her father Steve.
Bindi Irwin is continuing shooting for Bindi, The Jungle Girl, a 26-part wildlife documentary for the Discovery Kids network that is set to screen in January 2007.
“I’m trying to get across the message that don’t be afraid of animals, they’re just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that,” Bindi tells ABC’s Australian Story in her first formal interview since her father’s death in September.
Steve will appear with her in scenes filmed before his death.
And like her father, Bindi is fearless. “Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I’m never ever afraid of an animal,” she says. “I just get excited and some that are dangerous I just think, ‘Oooh! What’s going to happen?’ and things like that.”
Bindi is already proving to be comfortable in the public eye. She gave a moving tribute (performance, I didn’t see a lot of emotion there) to her father at his Sept. 20 memorial service and presented an award at the Oct. 11 Nickelodeon Australian Kids’ Choice Awards 2006.
“Bindi’s an amazing little girl,” says her grandfather, Bob Irwin. “She is a real professional. The thing about Bindi is, she seems to enjoy it.”
But is it too early for her to be working, less than two months after her father’s death? Says Steve’s best friend, Wes Manion, “Filming for her is very much like other kids’ soccer. Bindi has been basically going, ‘Come on, I want to start filming again, I want to start getting out there, I want to start spreading Dad’s message.’ And I think that’s part of her way of coping as well.”
Responding to critics who might say Bindi is too young to be in the spotlight, Stainton says, “I think they don’t understand that this little girl is very much enjoying what she’s doing. She is in control.” [Source]
Yes, I think she is enjoying the attention too much.
Nothing wrong with doing the filming, but do they have to have her on the news every other night? If they wanted to manage it better they should pull back a little bit before they get too much of a backlash.
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