Oprah Offered Irwin Statue

Friday 10th April 2009 - 06:30:34

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has been offered the chance to buy a $60,000 (£40,000) statue of tragic Crocodile Hunter - Steve Irwin - because no one in his native Australia wants it.

Aussie sculptor Mitch Mitchell created the two metre (6.5 foot)-high bronze tribute and hoped to sell it to a museum in the animal trainer's native Melbourne.

But he has received no offers - prompting him to approach Winfrey, whose show Irwin appeared on before his death from a stingray attack in September 2006.

Mitchell reveals, "He's a Melburnian and he's the most famous Australian there's probably ever been. "It should stay in Melbourne.

It's the place of his birth and he deserves to be honoured, but nobody here wants to buy it".