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Dancing With the Stars<\/a> <\/em>pro Witney Carson wants her partner, Robert Irwin, to stay focused on the prize: the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy that will go the winner of season 34.<\/p>\n So she realized that it might not have been the wisest move to have him rip off his shirt and flash his impressive abs Tuesday when they performed a salsa to Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby.” Even judge Carrie Ann Inaba was stunned<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I had so many moments of regret,” Carson told Entertainment Tonight<\/em><\/a>. “I was like, ‘Did I make the right choice taking his shirt off?'”<\/p>\n She then joked, “Girls, let’s take it down a little. I can only take so much!”<\/p>\n Over the weekend, Carson had already posted a TikTok video<\/a> that poked fun at the interest she had received for her partner on the internet. In the clip, she and Irwin were seen walking into a studio as she took his phone. “Coming in hot to check Robert’s DMs,” she wrote over it.<\/p>\n She also wrote on her Instagram Story about how women were filling up her inbox and “flooding the DMs,” per PEOPLE<\/a>.<\/p>\n There was too much romantic interest in her partner, she said, so she pitched a solution: “We are currently dancing our lives away so we are unable to respond. Robert for The Bachelor<\/em>?! Idk this is too stressful for me to handle lol!”<\/p>\n Before that, Irwin, the 21-year-old son of the late Australian conservationist Steve Irwin, told E! News<\/a> that he’s “still looking for the American girl,” and he noted that Carson was helping. She described a screening process that included approval from Irwin’s big sister and season 21 DWTS<\/em> winner, Bindi Irwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’ve got another protective older sister now,” he said.<\/p>\n