Terri Irwin breaks her silence on whether she is dating anyone after the death of her late husband Steve Irwin

Daily Mail​

27-04-2025

Terri Irwin has revealed that she is still single - and happy to be.
The 60-year-old confirmed to this week's issue of Stellar Magazine that she has never seen the need to date another man after tragically losing her husband Steve Irwin in 2006.
'I'm sure there are a lot of lovely people out there in the world, but I did find my happily-ever-after, and I think I still have a lot of love in my life' she said.
'So I'm lonely for Steve, but I'm not lonely. I never mourn being on my own and not being in a relationship' Terri continued.
'I think we need to say that. I think women are still amazing, fulfilled, incredible people – even if you never marry, if you have four kids, or two kids, or no kids.
'There are no rules'.
Terri previously insisted she has no plans to get back into the dating market.
'I totally got my happily ever after,' the American-Australian conservationist told Us Weekly before attending the Steve Irwin Gala in Las Vegas.
She said no man could measure up to the late Crocodile Hunter, who died in Queensland at the age of 44 after a stingray lodged its barb in his chest.
'While there are a lot of wonderful men in the world, can you see another Steve Irwin? I just can't,' Terri said.
'I'd be like, 'I love that you're a librarian and the Dewey Decimal System is cool, but I got to go jump a crocodile and do that.' Forget that,' she added.
Terri was married to zookeeper Steve for 14 years before his tragic death in September 2006 and they share two kids, daughter Bindi, 26, and son Robert, 21.
Steve was killed when he was barbed by a stingray on September 4, 2006, at Batt Reef near Port Douglas in far north Queensland.
The mother-of-two hasn't dated anyone publicly since her late husband tragically died.
Last year, Terri broke her silence on long-standing rumours that she's dating actor Russell Crowe.
She made a surprise appearance on KIIS FM's Kyle and Jackie O Showduring son Robert Irwin 's press tour for I'm A Celebrity.
Sitting behind the microphone, matriarch Terri addressed the decades-long 'romance'.
'Have we been linked? I can't remember,' she joked.
Radio host Kyle Sandilands cut to the chase by asking: 'Who are you having sex with?'
'I have a lot of quiet evenings with a nice, big, juicy pizza,' Terri answered.
It comes after Kyle and co-host Jackie 'O' Henderson pressed Robert, 21, about his mother's romantic life.
'Mum has been linked to something like 30 people,' he revealed.
'I mean, it was King Charles, it was Russell, it was everyone.'
The Oscar-winner is a long-time supporter of Australia Zoo and friend of the Irwins, with his friendship Terri sparking decades worth of romance rumours which she has ardently denied.
In 2021, Terri denied she was dating Russell saying she was 'very very single'.
She told Access Hollywood in 2017: 'In all honesty, he (Russell) and Steve became friends many years ago, and after Steve passed, you find out who your true friends are. And Russell has been very loyal as a great friend.'
Despite continual denials the pair are an item, Russell has also gushed over Terri in the past as well.
'Terri is one of the greatest women I've ever met in my life, without there being implication of intimacy or whatever,' he said.
'You know I do love Terri Irwin, I love her kids and I love how she's kept the memory of Steve alive, and respected the work that the two of them had begun and she's an absolute champion.'