, Bob was worried the Sunshine Coast tourist attraction was losing its focus on the animals, and even feared a then nine-year-old Bindi was being pushed into the spotlight far too young.
“It’s a strange feeling to spend half your lifetime building something up and walking away from it,” he told ABC’sFurther clues this may have contributed to Bob allegedly shunning the family in the years that followed were in his farewell statement from the zoo, in which he made no mention of his daughter-in-law.Source:News Regional Media
The arrangement was reportedly made that Steve and Terri would pay Bob and Lyn, who died in 2000, a wage for the rest of their lives in exchange for the former reptile park.
The Irwin marketing machine is out of control. Everyday there is a new story. I think they are overestimating peoples interest in them. Maybe it is time for them to reduce their marketing spend for a while.