Robert Irwin’ s headline-making run on Dancing With the Stars Season 34 comes a decade after older sister Bindi Irwin waltzed to victory in the ABC show’s 21st season — and a decade after a bizarre court case nearly took the elder Irwin out of the competition.

On November 5, 2015, which is 10 years ago now, a Superior Court of Los Angeles judge rejected Bindi’s contract for a lack of proof that her and Robert’s father, the zookeeper Steve Irwin a.k.a. TV’s “Crocodile Hunter,” was actually dead.

Of course, it was worldwide news when Steve died in 2006 at age 44 after being barbed by a stingray off Australia’s northeast coast. Steve was snorkeling at Batt Reef near Port Douglas, Queensland, when a stingray attacked him, its barb puncturing his heart and lungs, and Irwin was pronou

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