Australia's Bindi Irwin says no to Hollywood: manager

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's pint-sized wildlife warrior Bindi Irwin has declined an offer to move to Hollywood and star in a feature film, her manager John Stainton said.

Stainton said the nine-year-old will stay at the Queensland zoo founded by her late father, "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, where she lives with her mother Terri.

"There has been lots of interest from lots of parties in the States," Stainton told The Sun-Herald.

"But it's one of those things we're not doing. While Bindi lives at the zoo in Beerwah, she has every chance of being a normal kid.

"I think the influences she would get from having to live in Hollywood, or do a movie in Hollywood, would be different."

Steve Irwin, who became internationally famous for his television...