Kermode's a well-known pundit rather than a celeb-e.g.he appears on late night night BBC arts progs etc discussing films(movies).
I used to think 'twit',what a daft hairstyle-then I saw him with some skiffle gear and everything snapped into place!
Good luck to him.
Incidentally,the yanks had a small humo(u)rous book concerning the construction of what they they call outhouses,it ran into hundreds of prints.That was written by a chap called Kermode IIRC.