Robert Irwin arrives on the red carpet at the TIME 100 Next in 2019. He and Witney Carson won Season 34 of “DWTS.” File Photo by Jason Szenes/UPI | License Photo
Robert Irwin and his professional dance partner Witney Carson are the Season 34 winners of Dancing with the Stars.
The pair beat out finalists Alix Earle and Val Chmerkovskiy, Dylan Efron and Daniella Karagach, Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa, and Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten for the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy.
Irwin and Carson danced a quickstep to Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” a cha cha to DNCE’s “Cake by the Ocean,” and a freestyle to Sam Sparro’s “Black & Gold” and Avicii’s “The Nights.”
“My sister said it best: Thank you for changing my life,” Irwin said after their win.
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Bindi Irwin previously won Season 21 of the dance competition series.
“I’m so grateful for Robert, and i feel like I won already with him as my friend,” Carson said.
Their win came as Irwin contended “with rib pain because the intercostal muscles of the ribs are under a lot of tension.”
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