is an actor and
celebrity television personality or ''
gaijin tarento'', in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
He first learned Japanese while working as a
Mormon missionary
Missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—widely known as Mormon missionaries—are volunteer representatives of the church who engage variously in proselytizing, church service, humanitarian aid, and commu ...
in Japan when he was 19 years old.
He is known as one of "the two Kents" (along with
Kent Gilbert).
Derricott was the first thing to come to the mind of Japanese when asked about Utah for a 2002 study for the
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...
in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
While he has been offered celebrity jobs in the
United States (such as the opportunity to be the replacement for
Richard Dawson on ''
Family Feud''), he is not interested in becoming a celebrity outside Japan.
After returning from Japan in the 1990s, Derricott started his own television production company.
Derricott is a consultant for businesses working in or expanding to Japan
and he now lives in
Bountiful, Utah. He still makes occasional appearances on Japanese television.
Books
Derricott has written several books published in Japan, including:
* (Zenkoku Asahi Hōsō, November 1988, )
* (KTC Chūō Shuppan, July 1999, )
* (
Hakusensha, October 2005, )
* (
Takeshobo, June 1991, )
References
External links
Official site at Sankei ProDerricott, Kent
in libraries ( WorldCat catalog)
1955 births
Canadian male television actors
Canadian expatriates in Japan
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Canadian Latter Day Saints
Canadian Mormon missionaries
Expatriate television personalities in Japan
Living people
Mormon missionaries in Japan
People from Lethbridge
20th-century Mormon missionaries
Male actors from Alberta
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