Other Interests
Oakley has always had a passion for wines and in 1999, after meeting sommelier Barry Skarin (who has worked as Head Sommelier for Marco Pierre White and Michael Caines) in a pub decided to join their passion for wine together and form the wine (including fine and rare wines) company Nebuchadnezzar Wines.
He is also known to be a collector of South American red-bellied piranha, stating "I wanted something unusual, and piranhas certainly make feeding time interesting".
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