Kevin O'Leary aka "Mr. Wonderful" Is Cooking up More Than Investments These Days (EXCLUSIVE)

In an exclusive interview with 'Distractify,' Kevin O'Leary from 'Shark Tank' shared the explanation why he's called "Chef Wonderful" these days.

Although cut-throat Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary is perfect recognized for his business acumen, he’s also a man of many abilities. Along together with his passion in guitar and pictures, the entrepreneur is additionally a grasp chef. And in line with Kevin, there’s a explanation why they name him Chef Wonderful.

In an exclusive interview with Distractify, Kevin were given candid about where his love for culinary arts started. Additionally, Mr. Wonderful shared exclusive club details about Chevaliers du Tastevin — the not-so-secret secret society for elite wine connoisseurs.

'Shark Tank' big name Kevin O’Leary opened up about why he is often referred to as “Chef Wonderful.”

Long ahead of Kevin wanted to be a "shark," he initially discovered love within the culinary arts. The investor informed us that his interest in meals was once piqued at a very early age.

“My organic father died when he used to be young when he used to be 37,” Kevin mentioned. Later, his mother remarried, and since Kevin’s stepfather George worked for the United Nations, he spent a lot of his adolescence in another country. “We moved in all places each two years."

Along with Tunisia, Ethiopia, Japan, Germany, and France, the family also spent time in Cambodia. There, Kevin met two women from Khmer Rouge who opened his eyes to the world of haute cuisine.

“I started to learn about French fusion as a young boy, and I would be in the kitchen with them cooking. I developed, you know, a real interest in what they were doing,” he shared. Ultimately, Kevin’s Cambodian cooking lessons paid off big time.

“I became a sous chef. And I put myself through college doing that,” he went on. Kevin said that he’s honed his culinary skills to perfection since then. "I make the best escargot on the planet. I make the most efficient creme flambe you have got ever had, , my pork wellington, you have by no means tasted anything like it."

“And I'm not bashful about it,” he added with a smile. "I am the most efficient chef the world's ever made."

And we’re inclined to believe him ... after all, Chef Wonderful is no stranger to the finer things in life.

What is Chevaliers du Tastevin? Mr. Wonderful on being inducted into the secret wine club: “It’s an intoxicating event.”

In English, Chevaliers du Tastevin means Fraternity of the Wine-Tasting Cup, but for Mr. Wonderful, it translates into time to turn up. “I'm a member of this Burgundian society that celebrates burgundy wines, which are basically the Pinot grape and really hard to make,” Kevin bragged.

Kevin described his induction into the membership 3 a long time in the past as an “intoxicating event.”

“They take an historical vine and faucet each shoulders and you drink a whole goblet of burgundy wine all through the ceremony,” the investor recalled.

Chevaliers du Tastevin — which costs about $25,000 to join and $3,000 a yr — was once created completely for wine aficionados in 1950. And in step with Kevin, the cost is neatly price it.

“When you pay that $25,000, you might be purchasing into a cellar that is probably price $5 [or] $6 million, because we purchased the ones wines 30, 40, 50 years ago,” he explained. “It's truly a wonderful technique to have camaraderie with other people. We have a talk room, we talk each and every night.”

Watch Kevin on new episodes of Shark Tank at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.

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