Channel 5 information anchor Dan Walker is about to overlook Monday night’s broadcast after he was concerned in a motorbike accident.
“Bit of an accident this morning,” he tweeted alongside images of himself with blood over his face at the back of an ambulance. “Glad to be alive after getting hit by a automobile on my bike. Face is a multitude however I don’t assume something is damaged. Thanks to Shaun and Jamie for sorting me out and the beautiful copper on the scene.”
Walker is the lead anchor on Channel 5’s flagship 5pm information bulletin, “5 News at 5.”
A consultant for Channel 5, which is owned by Paramount Global, confirmed to Variety that Walker could be sitting out the Monday night broadcast. Channel 5 News’ chief correspondent Tessa Chapman will stand in for him.
Fellow broadcasters together with Motsi Mabuse, Sally Biddulph and Shelagh Fogarty have been fast to answer to Walker on the social media platform with their finest needs.
“Oh goodness me get nicely quickly, Dan!!” Fogarty tweeted whereas Mabuse wrote: “Oh wow !!! Get nicely quickly.”
“So glad you might be OK Dan, what a shock. Rest up and really feel higher quickly,” added Biddulph.
“Walker is now in hospital recovering,” his agent reportedly advised The Times of London. “It is known the accident happened when the TV presenter was biking from his dwelling in Sheffield to the practice station, the place he was going to the Channel 5 studios in London.”
Walker was beforehand an anchor for BBC Breakfast earlier than lured over to Channel 5 final summer time with a reported wage of £1.5 million ($1.8 million) a yr.
