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Robert Irwin might be one of the most eligible bachelors in America, but scoring a date with him isn’t an easy task.
After yet another impressive showing in the Dancing with the Stars ballroom for week 2 on Sept. 23 — he and partner Witney Carson earned a 22/30 for their Tango — the 21-year-old admitted that he’s eager to find a life partner to experience things with.
“My life is a whirlwind. It’s an adventure. And I would love to be able to share that with someone and to share those little moments,” he told E! News after the show.
Robert is “still looking for the American girl” who’s gonna steal his heart, he confirmed, but Carson, 31, “has been helping,” too.
“Well, you have to go through a screening process,” Carson said. “So submit your applications through my DMs, and then I will forward them to Bindi [Irwin], and then — then we will see about the American tourist.”
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After hearing his partner’s high standards for him, Robert quipped, “I’ve got another protective older sister now.”
In true older sister fashion, Carson then teased, “You will be single forever!”
Robert told the outlet that he’s looking for “genuine kindness” in a partner, but he’s not in a “rush.”
“I have a lot of great role models in the love department and a lot of people I look up to and go, ‘Wow, you guys — couple goals.’ So I want to find that,” he said. “But it’s something you can’t rush. It just has to happen, and you’ve got to be open to that. She’s out there, and I look forward to it.”
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In an interview for his PEOPLE cover story, Robert admitted that he looks up to his parents’ relationship. “I look at my mom, I look at my dad and I’m like, that’s it. That’s who I want to be. That’s a perfect relationship.”
“My mom and dad met when she was this American tourist coming over to Australia, and that’s also how my sister met her husband,” he said of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin and his wife Terri, and Bindi, 27, and her husband Chandler Powell.
“I’ve been saying, when is that going to happen for me?!” he quipped. “I’m still waiting for it. That American tourist is not quite lined up.”
Following his week 2 performance, Robert told PEOPLE that he “wishes” his dad, who died in 2006, was around to see him compete.
“I’m doing this and I do what I do in life to make him proud,” he said. “Dad was the person who just gave everything he did, everything he had, truly. And this experience, that’s what you’ve got to do. You’ve got to show every side to yourself. You’ve got to put every single fiber of your energy into this, and you get all of that back.”
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Dancing with the Stars airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and Disney+.
