Kent Derricott
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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.[3] After returning from Japan in the 1990s, Derricott started his own television production company.[3] Derricott is a consultant for businesses working in or expanding to Japan[1] and he now lives in Bountiful, Utah. He still makes occasional appearances on Japanese television.[1]
Books
Derricott has written several books published in Japan, including:
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- Script error: No such module "Nihongo". (Takeshobo, June 1991, Template:ISBN)
References
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External links
- Official site at Sankei Pro
- Derricott, Kent in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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- 1955 births
- Canadian male television actors
- Canadian expatriates in Japan
- Canadian expatriate male actors 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