Bindi Irwin is engaged to marry longtime boyfriend
Posted July 24, 2019 7:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) - Bindi Irwin, the daughter of the late conservationist, Steve Irwin, is getting married.
She posted Wednesday on her social media that longtime boyfriend Chandler Powell's proposed on her 21st birthday, Tuesday.
Powell is a 22-year-old wakeboarder from Florida whom she met in 2013 when he was visiting the Irwin family's Australia Zoo .
Steve Irwin, known as "The Crocodile Hunter," was a popular TV personality. He was killed by a stingray in 2006 while filming an underwater documentary.
His wife, Terri, and children Bindi and Robert have carried on his conservation work.
Bindi Irwin starred in her own wildlife series as a child. She won season 21 of "Dancing with the Stars."
FILE - This Sept. 20, 2018 file photo shows Bindi Irwin at the Empire State Building to promote her Animal Planet series "Crikey! It's The Irwins" in New York. Irwin posted on her social media Wednesday, July 24, 2019 that Chandler Powell, her longtime boyfriend, proposed on July 23, her 21st birthday (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
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