Megan Grass laughs whereas wanting via her images and movies of her on the Australia Zoo at dwelling in Cottonwood Heights on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Grass posted a TikTok video, that has gone viral, of her asking Robert Irwin, son of “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, for his quantity. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
Megan Grass poses with a poster of Robert Irwin whereas visiting the Australia Zoo along with her household in Beerwah, Australia, on June 12, 2022. Grass posted a TikTok video, that has gone viral, of her asking Robert Irwin, son of “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, for his quantity. Leslie Grass
Megan Grass reveals her TikTok account which, on the time of the picture, has 1.7 million likes and 17.7 thousand followers, at dwelling in Cottonwood Heights on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Grass posted a TikTok video, that has gone viral, of her asking Robert Irwin, son of “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, for his quantity. Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
Megan Grass stood on the sting of the precipice and determined to go for it. Why not? She’d performed scarier issues. She’d auditioned to get accepted into one of the prestigious music theater colleges in America, hadn’t she? She might do that.
She regarded down into the croc pit and mentioned, “I believe you’re so cute, and I used to be questioning if I might have your quantity?”
The thing of her consideration was not a 15-foot crocodile, it was the younger man standing subsequent to the crocs: Robert Irwin, the 18-year-old son of the late nice Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter himself.
Megan Grass poses with a poster of Robert Irwin whereas visiting the Australia Zoo along with her household in Beerwah, Australia, on June 12, 2022. Grass posted a TikTok video, that has gone viral, of her asking Robert Irwin, son of “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, for his quantity.
Leslie Grass
Robert had simply completed starring, together with the crocs, in a present in the principle enviornment of the Australia Zoo, positioned an hour north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. Megan and her household, nearing the top of their two-week summer time trip Down Below, had watched the present within the stands. Afterward, Megan’s dad, Mike, had taken a roundabout path to keep away from the crowds and there, unexpectedly, he was.
When she’d entered the zoo, Megan, who is nineteen and one thing of an admirer of the youngest Irwin, informed her household, “If I see Robert I’m going to ask for his quantity.”
They rolled their eyes. I imply, what have been the chances he’d even be there; or that she’d truly do it?
However now …
Robert regarded up when he heard his identify. When she requested for his quantity he spoke.
“Effectively, I’m very flattered,” he mentioned, “Thanks — uh, the place are you from?”
“America,” mentioned Megan.
“Oh nice, the place abouts?”
“Utah.”
“Cool. Oh, Utah’s nice.”
And so it went. Robert explaining that he likes folks to message him on Instagram so his folks can display screen the messages and Megan saying she’d already direct-messaged him the night time earlier than and Robert saying, “OK, nicely what was your identify?”
“Megan Grass.”
“I’ll look it up.”
“Good.”
“No worries.”
The dialog lasted 36 seconds. Megan left happy. She achieved what she got here for. She’d requested for his quantity — and in reality, he hadn’t precisely mentioned no.
Megan and her household drifted again into the gang, as nameless as once they got here in. They have been midway across the globe, 8,000 miles from dwelling. Who would ever know what she simply did?
That's, if Megan’s mother, Leslie, hadn’t filmed it on her cellphone.
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Megan Grass reveals her TikTok account which, on the time of the picture, has 1.7 million likes and 17.7 thousand followers, at dwelling in Cottonwood Heights on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Grass posted a TikTok video, that has gone viral, of her asking Robert Irwin, son of “The Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, for his quantity.
Kristin Murphy, Deseret Information
When Megan noticed her mom’s video she posted it on her TikTok account so her followers — about 200 of them, principally her mates — might see that she had precise proof.
When she went to sleep the video had 330 views.
When she awakened the subsequent morning it had 400,000.
An hour later, 500,000. By noontime, over one million. A mean of 1,500 folks per minute have been watching the video.
“Only for funsies I regarded up ‘Megan Grass Robert Irwin’ on the web,” says Megan, “and there have been already articles written about it; plenty of them.”
Articles with headlines resembling “Lady goes viral on TikTok for asking Steve Irwin’s son out,” “Daring Vacationer Asks Steve Irwin’s Son For His Quantity on the Zoo,” “Followers are going wild for the candy means Robert Irwin reacted to an American vacationer hitting on him.”
Megan’s dad, whose profession is public relations, informed her, “You recognize the media, this is sort of a present pattern, a scorching subject, it’ll fizzle out.”
But it surely didn’t fizzle out. It turned out Megan wasn’t the one one inquisitive about Robert Irwin. “I knew he was standard,” she laughs, “however we didn’t understand he’s thought-about royalty in Australia.”
The “At this time” present of Australia tracked the Grasses down in Port Douglas and despatched a digital camera crew to do an interview with the “besotted American vacationer.”
Requested stay on Australian nationwide TV if she had a message for Robert, Megan mentioned, “I'd simply inform Robert thanks a lot for being so candy about it; I believe he’s such a cool man; and if he’s ever in want of somebody to carry a koala, I’m his woman.”
The following day, Robert went on nationwide TV and thanked her: “An enormous thanks to Megan, wherever she is. Kudos for the boldness to ask that. That made my total day. That was extremely variety. That actually meant quite a bit, it actually did.”
By the point Megan flew dwelling to Utah, her video had 7 million views. Per week later, it handed 12 million, with 2.1 million likes, and no finish in sight. (You may watch the video on TikTok at @megangrass12).
Megan now has over 25,000 TikTok followers.
Alas, Robert Irwin isn’t one in all them. No less than not but.
However the Aussie media is retaining the story alive by mentioning that Steve Irwin met his American spouse, Terri, when she visited the Australia Zoo as a vacationer from Oregon AND that Bindi, Robert’s older sister, met her husband, Chandler Powell, an American from Florida, when he visited the zoo and went on a tour she performed.
“Will Lightning Strike Three Instances?” the Aussies need to know.
As for Megan, her plans are to renew her research this August at Marymount Manhattan School in New York Metropolis, the distinguished liberal arts college she efficiently auditioned for a 12 months in the past. The Brighton Excessive Faculty graduate’s dream is to sing on Broadway at some point. She’s already sung in ensembles in Carnegie Corridor and the Lincoln Heart.
And if this factor with the Irwin boy goes wherever?
Yep, she’s considered that.
“They've Broadway reveals in Sydney,” she says, “If one in all us goes to should compromise, I’d try this.”