A TV presenter who went missing while on assignment while covering a horrific bus crash that killed 10 wedding-goers sparked a huge police manhunt.
High profile Australian TV presenter Matt Doran failed to show up for his shoot on Tuesday (June 13) morning at Greta in New South Wales, where the crash took place.
The crash saw 10 wedding guests lose their lives as a bus carrying them rolled over while travelling around a roundabout on Wine Country Drive near the town.
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The driver of the bus made bail after being charged with 10 counts of dangerous driving occasioning death, and one further count of negligent driving in relation to all 10 deaths.
Insiders told the Mail that Matt, 40, did not answer the door when a producer went to knock on his hotel door either.
Worried for his safety, his colleagues quickly called the police, who launched a missing persons alert across the region.
While Aussie cops said he was found a short while afterwards, they did not release details on why he went missing.
His disappearance also caused problems for the channel and Matt’s home life.
A Channel Seven insider revealed that Doran's wife Kendall Bora, an executive producer for Channel Nine's Today show, abruptly left work to head to the area to search for her husband.
On top of this, news reporter Liam Tapper appeared live on air from Cessnock on Sunrise on Tuesday morning. It is not currently known whether he was already scheduled for that time slot or whether he was acting as Doran's replacement.
Matt is no stranger to controversy, being the reporter at the centre of a feud with music megastar Adele in 2021.
He ended up blowing up a $1 million deal (£537,000) with her record label after admitting to not listening to Adele’s latest album, 30.
This offended the singer, causing her to cancel the exclusive interview, for which the channel he works for had sent an entire crew to London.
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