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Good grief! Talk about getting things wrong!!!! Irwin had nothing to do with the series PLANET EARTH. Fothergill is the executive producer of the show and a veteran producer of natural history programmes for the BBC. Terri Irwin was NOT given the Sir David Attenborough Lifetime Achievement award as no such award exists, rather she presented to Sir David Attenborough a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British National Television Awards ceremony earlier this week in recognition of the great man's outstanding work in TV over the decades.
I'd expect this kind of error in the printed media but not here....better luck next time in getting the facts right!

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Correction made. My misreading of the source piece. Thanks. If you find additional errors in any TV Squad post, feel free to use the "corrections" link to the right.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought I was alone on this one. Irwin lost me forever with the Baby X Alligator thing, what a f***ing idiot. I go even further and say that by being the ironic bastard that I am I couldn't hold a very wide smile when I read the first Stingray X Irwin news. It made me chuckle. I remember thinking "I love your sense of humor God, I just hope people can learn something from this."

Apparently they can't.

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I think in general, we as a society tend to deify people like Irwin much more so that he deserves to. I never thought he was all that special, though you could tell he was a nice guy and overall a good family man.

You're right, Julia: anyone who thought of his death as some sort of out-of-the-blue, entirely unexpected event clearly did not understand what Irwin was doing. He repeatedly put himself in harms' way, in no small part for the platitudes and notoriety it got him from the public, and it cost him his life.

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someone needs to tell the sharks and bears that "attacking humans isnt natural"

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Thank you! His death was regrettable, but I he always rubbed me the wrong way. He always seemed to be almost taunting the animals.... going right up to them, letting them snarl and then grabbing them in some way. It was pure showmanship, we know these are dangerous animals, didnt really see the need to taunt them into displaying that fact. I don't think he was too much better than the "Wild Boys".

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Had he died from wounds inflicted by one of those dangerous animals one could say that he died because of violent behavior one should expect of a wild, dangerous animal. Ironically, he died as a result of a wound inflicted by a normally peaceful animal.

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Ahh...sounds like he's not an untouchable anymore. He repeatedly injected himself into their natural habitat - at some point he was going to tackle an animal that wasn't going to take it. I also was out of the fan club when the baby/alligator thing happened.

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Steve Irwin was doing what he LOVED, What about personal freedom ??? All you guys with your negativity comments are always telling everyone else how to live, Irwin was making MONEY and built a GREAT zoo,, What are you doing beside tripping up a DEAD man ??? The way he died was a freak thing, an accindent, We ALL take wrisk when we get in our cars, EVERYDAY.. Nobody get off this planet alive, We ALL have made mistakes, Baby Bob was SAFE, I would not have done it with my son, but it was Steve Irwins pesonal freedom. Most of your comments are on the mistakes he made, He was eccentric and lived HIS life to the fullest, He was not egocentric like your folks who have nothing but negative things to say about the man..If he rubbed your wrong, he must of made YOU feel less of a person..The root of your negative comments is JEALOUSY, nothing new under the Sun..

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Steve Irwin was doing what he LOVED, What about personal freedom ??? All you guys with your negativity comments are always telling everyone else how to live, Irwin was making MONEY and built a GREAT zoo,, What are you doing beside tripping up a DEAD man ??? The way he died was a freak thing, an accindent, We ALL take wrisk when we get in our cars, EVERYDAY.. Nobody get off this planet alive, We ALL have made mistakes, Baby Bob was SAFE, I would not have done it with my son, but it was Steve Irwins pesonal freedom. Most of your comments are on the mistakes he made, He was eccentric and lived HIS life to the fullest, He was not egocentric like your folks who have nothing but negative things to say about the man..If he rubbed your wrong, he must of made YOU feel less of a person..The root of your negative comments is JEALOUSY, nothing new under the Sun..

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I agree wholeheartedly with Tex Kamakawiwo\'ole. The green eyed monster, jealousy, has certainly brought out the worst in these negative posters. Baby Bob was indeed safe in his devoted, loving, and experienced father's hands. The average father would not do this but Steve was NOT average and that is as it should be. You posters of negativity need to get a life.

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