Investor Kevin O’Leary, widely known as a star from “Shark Tank,” said he offered TikTok’s owners $20 billion in cash to buy the platform during a Friday appearance on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”

Kevin O’Leary is working on deal to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business in order to save the social media app. With TikTok set to be banned in the U.S. on Jan. 19 unless Chinese parent company Bytedance can find an American buyer,

Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary discusses what the SCOTUS decision on TikTok means going forward and if there is still a chance for the app to be saved on ‘Your World.’

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary — a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful”—said he’s nearing a deal to buy TikTok from its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance to avoid the U.S. ban on the social media app.

The ruthlessly opportunistic business leaders paying $1 million each for the chance to catch President-elect Donald Trump’s eye are like cold, barren planets revolving around a not-so-distant orange sun.

O'Leary is teaming up with billionaire Frank McCourt to make a play for the app, which faces a nationwide-looking U.S. ban.

Kevin O’Leary, one of the venture capitalist “sharks” from the reality television show, said Monday that he had joined a group known as the People’s Bid for TikTok that has been putting together a bid for TikTok’s U.S. business. The effort is being spearheaded by billionaire Frank McCourt, who sold the Dodgers in 2012.