LATE Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s dad — who’s been banned from granddaughter Bindi’s wedding — insists he does not disapprove of the youngster’s upcoming marriage to former wakeboarder Chandler Powell.

After a decade of silence, family patriarch Bob, whose wildlife-loving son died when a stingray’s barb pierced his heart in 2006, is speaking for the first time of the family split that must have the beloved reptile-wrangler rolling in his grave.

As GLOBE reported last week, Bindi, 21, is so furious with her gramps, she banned Bob, 80, from her nuptials with Chandler, 22, a native of Arizona. But Bob says it was all a misunderstanding.

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