An investor from "Shark Tank" and a former owner of the Dodgers are teaming up to try to save TikTok before a nationwide ban is set to go into effect this month. Kevin O'Leary, one of the venture capitalist "sharks" from the reality television show,

Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank fame announced on the Fox News' The Story with Martha MacCallum that he was in talks to buy TikTok, which faces a potential USA ban due to its Chinese origins on January 19.

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.