Posted on 04/03/2008 6:47:13 PM PDT by nmh
BRISBANE, Australia — The father of late television star Steve Irwin said he quit the family's Australian conservation park because he had become a "disrupting influence," although the widow of the khaki-clad "Crocodile Hunter" denies a rift in the clan.
Australian media have speculated for months that Terri Irwin, the U.S.-born wife of the television host and mother of his two children, had fallen out with Bob Irwin following his son's death in a 2006 stingray attack.
In brief excerpts released Thursday of Bob Irwin's first interview since he left the park earlier this year, he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. he "was becoming a disrupting influence, not that I meant to be." There was no elaboration.
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Australia Zoo and Terri Irwin are both being sued by a debt recovery agency for more than $2.3 million allegedly owed to creditors. The case is in the preliminary stages before the courts.
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You get my drift.
Leni
I’m glad we’re poor folks
That’s too bad.
The loss should bring them together.
Doesn’t sound good:
Bob Irwin dodges talk of rift with Terri
By Glenis Green
March 06, 2008 11:00pm
“It’s um, going to get pretty muddy,” Mr Irwin told The Courier-Mail. “There’s a lot of stuff going on and there’s a lot of (other) stuff I don’t know about.
“I’m trying to stay out of it as much as I can. I’d much rather jump on crocs than put up with this.
“At this stage Id like to stay out of it as much as I can but that can change.
“It’ll change from week to week (especially) if people keep telling lies. I’m not into that.”
Mr Irwin’s comments came as another zoo source, who declined to be named, said two senior female zoo staff members had a fist fight over an alleged romantic affair with a senior male staffer.
The source also said the zoo’s general manager, Frank Muscillo who is married to Bob Irwin’s daughter Joy, bunkered down somewhere in Hervey Bay to avoid the media spotlight.
Mr Muscillo co-signed controversial loan documents over which the zoo is now facing legal action.
A debt collection firm is suing the zoo for $2.5 million and Terri Irwin for $60,000 over unpaid bills of exchange – unconditional promises to pay money as part of their involvement in an alleged tax minimisation scheme. A trial at the Victorian County Court is expected to begin in October.
Mr Mannion said on Tuesday that for the past 12 years Bob Irwin had played no part in the zoo’s management. “For the last 12 years the management team is identical to what it is today,” Mr Mannion said. “There’s been Steve, Terri, myself and Frank (Muscillo).”
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23332699-3102,00.html
>What’s going on?<
Perhaps he’s not happy with the way his daughter-in-law is pimping his
grandchild.
I’m no Teri fan. She exploits her little girl, Bindi, to keep the cash flowing. The poor kid is going to grow up and in ten years I doubt she’ll be thrilled with Mommy’s actions.
Bingo! We have a winner!
Terri will regret it. All the money in the world can’t restore her childhood and innocence. Terri ia an immature person. She needs to be the ADULT and parent.
Steve’s death left the family broke, and his widow is trying, desperately, to hold it together financially.
That seems to happen to some folks. I'm always amazed.
right on the money. I watched their TV show, “bindi the jungle girl” once and that was it for me.
Unfortunately, deaths either bring family members together or tear them apart.
wwsd?
... and what happened ... are they saying Steve Irwin of all people didn’t have life insurance? Or maybe he was uninsurable because of his profession? dunno
How did that happen?
They market everything imaginable.
I have my doubts about that ... perhaps they are over extended/
Her son, just got bitten by a python and she is very nonchalant about it. Terri really needs to get some grounding in reality.
that kid is annoying.
She is sacrine sweet. She reminds me of a child star pushed by a stage mom for a disturbed notion of what adults THINK is cute.
It seems the impresion of the money hungry mother trying to keep the cash cow going is correct.
My wife died from cancer in June, 2004 and though I've usually considered myself a fairly well rounded man, I have noticed the tendency to be a complete @$$hole at some of the weirdest times.
Later, I look in the mirror and ask ... wtf's wrong with you?
There's something about grief that, I think, only grievers understand.
There's no rift here.
Inner turmoil.
Sorry for your loss brother Freeper.
God Bless you.
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