Bindi Irwinis engaged — and herDancing with the Starsfamily couldn’t be happier.
“So happy for the 2 of you 🙂 Loving congratulations,” wroteDerek Hough, the dance pro who helped Irwinwin the coveted Mirrorball Trophythat year.
“Congratulations!!” added Hough’s girlfriendHayley Erbert. “So happy for you both.”
Carlos and Alexa PenaVega, who competed alongside Irwin, also congratulated her and her fiancéChandler Powell.
“Congratulations!!!” wrote Carlos.
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Alfonso Ribeiro, who won season 19 ofDWTSand filled in as a guest judge on Irwin’s season, said he was “so happy” for the couple.
“Congrats,” he wrote. “Nothing better than forever love.”
Tom Bergeron, who has hosted the show since it premiered in 2005, sent his wishes as well.
“Congratulations to you both (he’s a lucky guy!)” he wrote.
Irwin and Powellgot engagedon Tuesday, her 21st birthday. The daughter of the lateSteve Irwinhas been dating the 22-year-old wakeboarder from Florida since they met in 2013 while he was visiting the Irwin family-owned Australia Zoo.
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“I am overjoyed to be sharing the news that Chandler and I are engaged!” she told PEOPLE exclusively. “This has been the most special day celebrating my 21st birthday.”
“I’ve met my soulmate and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with Chandler,” she added. “We’ve been together for nearly six years now and he’s my happily ever after.”
Powell gushed that the engagement marked the “most perfect and beautiful day of my life.”
“After Bindi’s birthday celebration at Australia Zoo, we had a photoshoot organized to celebrate her turning 21,” he told PEOPLE. “Just before we started the shoot, I took her to a special part of Australia Zoo to ask the girl of my dreams to become my wife. These past five years together have been the best of my life and we look forward to a lifetime of magical moments to come.”
source: people.com
