ALL EYES ON ROB

You would be hard-pressed to find a celebrity who's had a bigger year than Robert Irwin. The Wildlife Warrior started out 2025 charming audiences as the co-host of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and ended it as a bonafide star – both here and in the US – thanks to his incredible moves on Dancing with the Stars.

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And let's not forget Irwin's debut as a Bonds ambassador in April, which saw him strip down to his underwear for the iconic brand's Made for Down Under campaign. The snakes and spiders crawling over him in the shoot went virtually unnoticed as women, young and old, expressed their shock at “little Bob” being all grown up. As Richard Wilkins told the 22-year-old during a chat on his podcast, The Apple and the Tree, “You've made grown women go weak at the knees and the hardened journalists get lost.”

The best part about Irwin's rise to superstardom? He's remained as humble as ever and just as dedicated to his environmental causes. In fact, Irwin's shown such likeability and poise amid his mounting fame, the WHO team has named him as unofficial Man of the Year.

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