Bindi Irwin: I'm Keeping Happy For Dad Steve
She explains why she's still smiling...
By: Chris Taylor on 12/10/2006

Bindi Irwin has said she is keeping happy for her late father Steve Irwin, who was killed earlier this year.
Onlookers were surprised the eight-year-old looked so happy at the TV naturalist’s memorial service after dying whilst filming Stingrays in September, but Bindi says she is simply fulfilling her father’s wishes.
She tells the News Of The World , “He would be so happy that I'm happy. When I look back at all the memories, really that's what Daddy wanted the most for me.

"Yeah, some people might think, ‘Oh my word she's happy, how can she be?' But, me personally, I think everyone has a choice of being happy or sad.

"He hated it when I cried. If my pet goldfish died, he cried with me. So I'm trying really hard not to make him really sad that I'm sad.

"Sometimes it's really sad and I have to cry a little bit. But I really think - I really believe - he's just in another world."

Bindi – who has been filming her own TV show ‘Jungle Girl' - also vowed to follow in her father’s animal loving footsteps.

“My daddy was my hero, he was always there for me. He taught me so many things. But most of all, he was fun. I want to help endangered wildlife like my dad," she says.