LOS ANGELES – Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late Australian “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, is being groomed for super-
stardom, say entertainment industry insiders, who see her as the second coming of Britney Spears.
The scarily self-assured Ms. Irwin, 8, launches her American showbiz career this week with a series of high-profile television appearances and record store visits designed to showcase her singing and dancing talents to a U.S. audience that, for the moment at least, thinks of her as “the poor little girl whose father died.”
That’s all about to change, however.
“She’s definitely hot,” said agent Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, “hotter than Drew or Dakota were at that age.”
Ms. Sloane-Zelnick, who represents Lindsay Lohan and other stars, is one of many publicists circling like sharks in anticipation of Ms. Irwin’s arrival.
“In the right hands that kid will be huge. I see her as a combination of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, with that nature girl thing thrown in.”
“That nature girl thing” will be front and center in the twenty-six-part Bindi, the Jungle Girl series, which will run on Discovery Kids network this year. Meanwhile, Ms. Irwin and her entourage will execute a well choreographed invasion of America.
See Bindi address the National Press Club in Washington; see Bindi appearing on a segment of MTV’s Date My Mom; see Bindi chatting up Ellen DeGeneres and David Letterman; see Bindi and her Crocmen backup dancers join The Wiggles at concerts in Los Angeles and New York.
“She’ll be welcomed with open arms and rightly so,” said Discovery senior vice-president Annie Howell. “She’s a very special child, whose upside and earning power are unlimited.”
Steve Irwin, 44, died on September 4, 2006, after a stingray he had been pestering planted a serrated barb in his heart. His daughter’s American tour coincides with the airing of Ocean’s Deadliest, the documentary her exuberant, khaki-clad father was filming when he died.
Under the watchful eye of her American-born mother, Terri—whom some people are already describing as “Joe Simpson with smaller tits”—Bindi Irwin will lay down a few tracks in an L.A. studio and visit Hollywood’s leading cosmetic dentist before heading home to Australia.
Meanwhile, scenesters like Paris Hilton and Brandon Davis are text-messaging Ms. Irwin already, offering to show her the ropes—and how to get around them—at Hollywood’s trendiest clubs.
Crickey, mate, that girl’s already a star.
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