Channel Seven presenter Matt Doran goes missing while reporting on Hunter Valley wedding bus crash
EXCLUSIVE: Channel Seven presenter Matt Doran goes MISSING after being sent to the Hunter Valley to report on a horror wedding bus crash ā before being found by police roaming the streets
- Matt Doran went missing in Hunter Valley on Tuesday
- The police were called and found him a short time later
Channel Seven TV presenter Matt Doran sparked a frantic police investigation after he disappeared while on a work assignment.
The network sent the high-profile Sydney journalist to the Hunter Valley on Monday to report on the horror bus crash that claimed the lives of 10 wedding guests in Greta over the long weekend.
But the star reporter failed to show up for his spot on Sunrise on Tuesday morning, with insiders saying his producer then went looking for him at his hotel in Singleton – only to knock on his room door went unanswered.
Concerned colleagues then contacted the police, who sent out a missing persons alert across the region.
āEarlier today, Port Stephens Hunter Police District officers received a notice of concern for a welfare report for a 40-year-old man,ā NSW Police told Daily Mail Australia.
Channel Seven reporter Matt Doran is pictured with his wife Kendall Bora
Officers launched an investigation and found a man a short time later. There is no further police action.’
A Channel Seven insider told Daily Mail Australia that Doran’s wife Kendall Bora, an executive producer of the Today show, abruptly left work to go to the area to find her husband.
āMatt Doran didn’t show up for work today. That’s a fact,” a source told Daily Mail Australia.
News reporter Liam Tapper appeared live on the Sunrise broadcast Tuesday morning. It remains unclear if he was already scheduled for that timeslot or if he was acting as Doran’s replacement.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Channel Seven for comment.
In the photo, Doran reports on the tragedy of Monday’s Hunter Valley bus accident
Ten people were killed and 25 others injured after a bus carrying guests from a wedding back to a Singleton property rolled over on its side (pictured)
Police inspect the bus on its side near the town of Greta after the catastrophic accident in the Hunter Valley
The incident comes just weeks after Doran put up for sale his lavish two-bedroom apartment in Bellevue Hill, in Sydney’s posh eastern suburbs.
The house will be auctioned on June 24 by BresicWhitney with a $1.8 million auction guide.
Doran, who built his career as a police reporter at the Herald Sun, joined the Seven Network in 2017 after working in the Network Ten newsroom for nearly eight years.
Two years later, he was promoted to his current role as co-host of Weekend Sunrise – alongside Monique Wright – after intermittently filling in for breakfast show star David Koch.
A Channel Seven insider told Daily Mail Australia that Doran’s wife Kendall Bora, an executive producer of the Today show, abruptly left work to go to the area to find her husband (couple pictured together)
During his time in broadcasting, Doran was no stranger to controversy – he infamously made world headlines after a disastrous interview with British Grammy award-winning singer Adele in November 2021.
The journalist was sent to London with a Seven crew for an exclusive interview with the Hello hitmaker as part of a promo for the release of her highly anticipated new album, 30.
However, Adele became offended after Doran admitted that he had not listened to the album prior to the interview, tearing up the $1 million deal.
It was reported at the time that Doran had been suspended for two weeks by the network over the incident, but he later claimed there was no formal suspension and simply took a week off.