“He Achieved Everything!” The Heartbreaking Final Words of TV Legend Derryn Hinch Will Leave You in TEARS!

It was confirmed on Friday that the veteran broadcaster and political figure, who referred to himself as the Human Headline, had died this week.

Hinch’s former colleague and personal assistant, Annette Philpott, told Daily Mail that he had died at home in his sleep on Thursday night, adding: “They’re putting it down to old age.”

“He’s had really tough times of late. He’s been in and out of hospital. I’m assuming his heart just gave out,” Philpott added.

New Zealand-born Hinch has been candid about his worsening health over the past few years.

In November last year, he appeared on A Current Affair where he told Martin King he had endured 30 falls in the past year alone, leaving him reliant on a walker he jokingly called ‘Johnny’.

“I’ve had 30 falls in the last year. And they just happen, even when I’m holding onto Johnny [his walker], I sometimes just hit the floor,” Hinch said.

One fall, which resulted in Hinch lying on the ground for 12 hours and breaking two ribs, led to a three-week stint in Melbourne’s The Alfred Hospital.

In April this year, Hinch admitted on social media that he was “not that well”.

“BUT. I am still moving. Pretty happy. Thinking. Going out. Catching up with friends. Maybe one more year or 10. Who knows? So enjoy.  Appreciate still being here. Just do it. Be positive.”

Fellow reporter Peter Ford took to X – formerly Twitter – on Friday to share the heartbreaking news, revealing that the prominent Aussie figure had “achieved all he wanted to do in life” before his death.

“Very saddened to report Derryn Hinch has died,” he began, adding: “What a life and career! Fearless & provocative.”

“He achieved all he wanted to do in life. RIP.”

Radio star Tony Tardio chimed in, saying that he was sad to hear the news, adding: “Derryn had an amazing life. It was a privilege to work with him.”

Hinch was a prominent figure in the media scene, even hosting his own show, Hinch Live, on Sky News Australia in 2015, as well as current affair programs on Nine, Seven and Ten over the years.

Also a radio host, Hinch became a big name thanks to his time on the airwaves, hosting a number of shows in Melbourne and Sydney over an impressive span of forty years.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he broadcast from 3AW and returned to the station in the 2000s and 2010s.

Hinch formed his own party, the Derryn Hinch Justice Party, in 2015 – which pushed for stricter sentences for violent and sexual offenders – and he was elected to represent Victoria in the Australian Senate a year later.

He held the seat for three years before being ousted, which he claimed was due to his backing of the controversial Medevac Bill, which saw sick refugees held on offshore detention centres transferred to Australia for medical treatment.

“I realise the reason I’m not a senator anymore is probably the Medevac Bill, I was a pivotal Senate vote on that, and it hurt me. It probably cost me 100,000 votes,” he told Sky News in 2020.

“I said at the time, sometimes you vote on what you think is right, not what you think will get you votes, and boy that proved to be true because conservative voters just deserted me because they didn’t want more refugees.

“But probably looking back on it, I don’t regret making that vote.”

Hinch made headlines over the years for regularly defying contempt-of-court laws when it came to sex offenders, an act which saw the vocal journalist convicted three times.

In 1987, he spent 12 days in jail and was fined $10,000 after he publicly named convicted paedophile and Catholic priest Michael Glennon, who was still running a youth camp while a criminal trial was pending.

He went on to dub the incident the “thing I’m most proud of in my life”, Seven reports.