Media Watch host Paul Barry breaks his hand and pelvis after being hit by a CAR

Media Watch host Paul Barry suffers broken pelvis and hand after being hit by a car while riding his bike to work – as he slams the ‘thoughtless driver who cleaned him up’

• Media Watch host Paul Barry injured after being hit by a car on Saturday 
• He has broken his hand and pelvis after he was struck when riding his bike 
• Barry confirmed he won’t host Media Watch on Monday following incident

By Andrew Prentice For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 01:01 BST, 7 August 2021 | Updated: 02:25 BST, 7 August 2021

Media Watch host Paul Barry has broken his hand and pelvis after being hit by a car while riding his bike to work on Saturday.

‘Broken hand and pelvis after a thoughtless driver backed into the road without looking and cleaned me up on my bike as I rode to work,’ Mr Barry wrote on Twitter.

In his tweet, Barry, 69, can be seen wearing a face mask and hospital gown in the picture as he held up his bandaged hand.

Mr Barry said Media Watch won’t air on Monday night on the ABC following the incident.

Media Watch host Paul Barry (pictured) has broken his hand and pelvis after being hit by a car while riding his bike to work on Saturday

The Media Watch host tweeted about his injury, with a ‘thoughtless driver’ cleaning him up on the road as he rode to work

Barry has hosted Media Watch on the ABC since 2013 – it is his second stint in the hot seat after originally accepting the role in 2000

He added he wasn’t sure when he would recover.

In a follow-up tweet, Barry thanked numerous well-wishers on social media.

‘Wow. Thanks for all the good wishes. I’m lucky. It could have been so much worse,’ he wrote.

‘Brain appears to be intact. And probably no long term damage.’

Barry is an English-born, Australian-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won countless awards for his investigative reporting.

He has been the host of Media Watch twice, with his second stint from 2013 onwards. 

Barry has also worked for the Seven Network and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Two of his biographies on Australian cricket legend Shane Warne and media mogul James Packer courted plenty of controversy.

The Packer book details relations between James and his father Kerry, and suggests the pair had a difficult relationship, and that James felt a sense of relief following his father’s death in 2005. 

Barry has also repeatedly squared off against the likes of former radio tsar Alan Jones, 2GB morning host Ray Hadley and News Limited journalist Andrew Bolt in recent years.

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