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Long time Channel Seven presenter Matt Doran made a welcome return to screens on Saturday.
The 41-year-old rejoined co-host Monique Wright for Weekend Sunrise after being away from the desk for the last four weeks.
Earlier this month, Seven announced the popular journalist was taking time off for personal ‘leave’.
On Saturday’s episode of the top-rating breakfast show, Doran appeared to be in fine form, happily bantering with his regular co-host.
The pair covered stories on the US election and the upcoming Royal tour Down Under.
Long time Channel Seven presenter Matt Doran made a welcome return to screens on Saturday. The 41-year-old rejoined co-host Monique Wright for Weekend Sunrise after being away from the desk for the last four weeks. (Pictured)
In May, Doran sparked concern among viewers after he was ‘no show’ for an episode of Weekend Sunrise.
His disappearance left producers scrambling to find a fill-in host, The Daily Telegraph reported at the time.
He was replaced by news reporter Chris Reason who returned to host the breakfast show alongside Monique Wright on June 8.
In May Doran sparked concern among viewers after he was ‘no show’ for an episode of Weekend Sunrise.
A Channel Seven spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia later explained that Doran was taking leave.
Doran’s disappearance this month comes one year after he sparked a frantic police search after vanishing during a work assignment in the Hunter Valley in June last year.
The star reporter had been sent to cover a wedding bus crash that claimed the lives of 10 people but failed to show up for his 5:30am shift on June 13.
Doran’s disappearance this month comes one year after he sparked a frantic police search after vanishing during a work assignment in the Hunter Valley in June last year.
Insiders said when producers went to look for Doran in his Singleton hotel, knocks on his door when unanswered.
The high-profile crime reporter had last been seen speaking to members of the Singleton community at a local football ground.
Earlier, locals had seen Doran leaving the home of newly married couple Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell, whose wedding was at the centre of the tragedy.
Doran took several weeks of personal leave after he vanished in the Hunter Valley and was reportedly spending time at home ‘prioritising his health’. (Pictured with his wife Kendall Bora)
When the reporter failed to answer calls, texts and emails ahead of his scheduled appearance on Sunrise, a producer went to check his hotel room.
Worried colleagues contacted police, who issued a missing persons alert.
Doran was eventually found at a nearby café and was swiftly replaced by his colleague Liam Tapper on air.
Insiders say several factors could have contributed to his troubling behaviour, with one suggesting Doran may have struggled with the confronting nature of the wedding bus crash tragedy.
Doran took several weeks of personal leave after he vanished in the Hunter Valley and was reportedly spending time at home ‘prioritising his health’.
He was replaced by his colleague Michael Usher on Weekend Sunrise.
Doran, who started his career as a police reporter at the Herald Sun, joined Seven in 2017 after spending almost eight years in Network Ten’s newsroom.
Two years later, he was promoted to his current role as co-host of Weekend Sunrise, alongside Monique Wright, after intermittently filling in for weekday host David Koch.
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