GLADIATOR hunk Russell Crowe has finally confessed his love for Terri Irwin, widow of his best pal, famed Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin!
“I do love Terri Irwin,” admits the Oscar-winning Aussie star.
“I love her kids and I love how she’s kept the memory of Steve alive, and respected the work that the two of them had begun and she’s an absolute champion.”
Crowe, 54, grew close to Terri and her two children, Bindi, 20, and Robert, 15, after Steve was killed by a stingray barb in 2006.
“Terri is one of the greatest women I’ve ever met in my life, without there being implication of intimacy or whatever,” he adds.
Although the A Beautiful Mind star reveals the entire Irwin family is “really important” to him, sources tell GLOBE…
