Kevin O’Leary tears up while revealing his family’s input on his conservative party leadership

He might be known as the “tough guy” on Shark Tank but Kevin O’Leary shows his softer side during an emotional interview with ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey. Officially announcing his decision to run for Canada’s Conservative Party leadership in early January, “Mr. Wonderful” lets us in on the private conversations that happened with his loved ones before he made that decision.

Kevin O’Leary tears up while revealing his family’s input on his conservative party leadership

He might be known as the “tough guy” on Shark Tank but Kevin O’Leary shows his softer side during an emotional interview with ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey. Officially announcing his decision to run for Canada’s Conservative Party leadership in early January, “Mr. Wonderful” lets us in on the private conversations that happened with his loved ones before he made that decision.

Guest Editorial: Don’t count Kevin O’Leary out

A rich, boastful, trash-talking, businessman-turned-reality-TV-star without a shred of political experience could never be elected to lead a major party in a mature democracy. And even if that happened, he would never, ever be elected to lead that country – voters would simply know better.

Kevin O’Leary’s campaign got rolling over lunch

When Kevin O’Leary popped up on Facebook late last week to nearly, almost, not quite declare his bid for the federal Conservative leadership, close watchers of Canadian politics must have been thinking, “Get on with it, Mr. Wonderful!” After all, O’Leary, celebrity investor and TV personality, has been flirting shamelessly with Tories for about a year, going back at least to his appearance last February at the Manning Centre Conference, an annual Ottawa gathering of right-wingers, where he headlined a session bluntly billed as, ” If I run, here’s how I’d do it .” Despite O’Leary’s undisguised interest in the job, though, he appears to have been seriously assembling a campaign organization for only a few weeks.