Robert Irwin Reveals Warning He Gave Family Before “Spicy” DWTS Performance

One of Robert Irwin‘s Dancing With the Stars routines had his family saying, “Crikey!”

The season 34 champ revealed that his family—including mom Terri Irwin  his sister Bindi Irwin—didn’t know that he would be shirtless for his dance with partner Witney Carson for the Sept. 30 TikTok Night episode.

“Surprise!” Robert joked on the Dec. 18 episode of Kylie Kelce‘s Not Gonna Lie podcast. “There was a good reason for that because, every dance that I had done, I would give my family a little preview. They would come to a rehearsal, or I’d show them a video. But then this one, there’s a point in the dance where I remove my shirt, and there’s a lot of…it’s salsa, so it’s, you know, it’s a little bit spicy…”

“I was like, I can’t show my fam, I don’t know,” he went on. “So I just went, ‘You know what? I’m just gonna go for it.’ And I said to them, ‘So this one’s a little bit edgy.’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s great. Go for it.’ But then afterwards, they were like, ‘Whoa.’”