Irwin fans have been left stunned by a revelation in a resurfaced home video of the world famous family.
The video, recently shared by The Female Quotient Instagram account, showed the moment five-year-old Bindi Irwin met her newborn little brother, Robert, for the very first time back in 2003.
In the footage, her late father Steve introduced Bindi to the family’s latest addition, only for the big sister to give her newborn brother a completely different name to that picked by Steve and their mum, Terri.
‘I think by the way he is, I’ll call him Brian,’ Bindi announced in the video.
‘His name’s Robert,’ Steve told his daughter.
Undeterred, Bindi said: ‘But I’ll call him Brian for short’, before Steve finally relented, replying ‘Okay.’
‘How do you know it’s a boy?’ Bindi asked Steve in another moment from the adorable video.
‘Did you check?’
Irwin fans have been left stunned by a revelation in a resurfaced home video of the world famous family. Pictured: Bindi Irwin, five, holding newborn brother Robert
‘They’re not born with clothes on, Bindi,’ Steve explained to his daughter patiently in the clip.
Fans are now demanding that Bindi comment on whether the family still uses Robert’s alternative name behind closed doors.
‘Can someone ask Robert Irwin if his sister still calls him Brian?’ one fan commented on the video shared to Instagram.
‘Bindi bringing the chaos of well I’M going to call him Brian,’ another added.
‘Her job was to name the animals at the zoo,’ one longtime fan explained in the comments. ‘So she assumed she’d get to name her brother, it’s SO ADORABLE.’
In the footage, her late father Steve introduced Bindi to the family’s latest addition, only for the big sister to give her newborn brother a completely different name
Today, conservationist Robert Irwin, 20, is one of Australia’s most in-demand media talents.
The beloved TikTok star made a glowing impression on fans when he took over as co-host of Channel Ten’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! Australia alongside longtime presenter Julia Morris, 56.
He nabbed a Gold Logie nomination for his first mainstream TV gig and also currently hosts and fronts a QLD tourism campaign.
Fans were left stunned an amused by the revelation
Steve ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin died age 44 off the coast of Queensland on 4 September 2006, after being pierced in the chest by a stingray while filming a nature documentary.
Bindi was six years old when he tragically passed, while Robert was three months shy of his third birthday.
It was Steve’s father, Bob, 85, who built the iconic Queensland zoo from the ground up in 1970 and passed it on to his late son and his wife Terri in 1992.
In his lifetime, Steve promoted wildlife conservation with his own hit TV show, The Crocodile Hunter.
His family have carried on his legacy with their own blockbuster wildlife reality series Crikey! It’s the Irwins, which debuted in 2018 and can still be seen on the Animal Planet network.
The fan reaction came about after Robert, 20, shared a throwback to his Instagram of himself and sister Bindi at Southbank in Brisbane 10 years ago. Both pictured
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