Kevin O’Leary Exposes He ‘Attempted’ to Stop Mark Cuban From Leaving ‘Shark Tank’ (Special)

Kevin O’Leary wasn’t all set for Mark Cuban to bid farewell to Shark Tank

” I attempted to turn him around on that choice due to the fact that he’s become part of the DNA of the program for so long,” O’Leary, 70, solely informed United States Weekly throughout an interview with Daniel Lubetzky “However I comprehend his factors, and he believed a lot about it and he made it for household factors and I comprehend precisely why. Certainly, we’re going to miss him.”

O’Leary shared that the last taping of Shark Tank with Cuban, 66, was “really psychological,” keeping in mind that the essence of the program does not lie with the sharks. He described that the “genuine stars” of the program are the business owners.

” They will continue and on and on, which’s what all of us comprehend and our task is to support them, money them, attempt and select the winners– due to the fact that we do not get it right all the time– and supply the platform and be those ambassadors for the American dream,” he informed United States

While Cuban might no longer be a shark, his relationship with O’Leary will not be concerning an end.

” I’m going to encounter Mark a lot,” O’Leary informed United States “To start with, we have a lot of offers over 16 years collaborating. However likewise, he’s out on an endeavor path. So am I. We encounter each other all the time. I consider him a buddy. I imply, he’s concerned my home and fulfilled my kids. What else do we do after 16 years?”

Cuban exposed in November 2023 that he would be leaving Shark Tank “This is our 15th year, and next year, our 16th year, is gon na be my in 2015,” Cuban stated on the “All the Smoke” Showtime basketball podcast. “So I got another year to go.”

After being with the program for more than a years, Cuban described he seemed like “it’s time” to carry on. (Cuban signed up with the series as a visitor star throughout season 2 in 2011, signing on as a full-time panelist in season 3.)

Cuban gushed that he has a great deal of love for the program along with the business owners. “I enjoy it due to the fact that it sends out the message [that] the American dream lives and well,” he described. “I seem like in doing Shark Tank all these years, we have actually trained numerous generations of business owners that if someone can originate from Iowa or Sacramento or anywhere, and appear on the carpet of Shark Tank and reveal their service and get an offer, it’s going to motivate generations of kids. That’s what takes place, right?”

He continued, “Now we have actually got individuals beginning stating, ‘I saw you when I was ten years old.’ I resemble, ‘F–. However we’re assisting them, right? I have actually purchased, I do not understand the number of numerous business.”

Season 16 of Shark Tank airs on ABC Fridays at 8 p.m. ET and streams on Hulu the following day.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi