Getting to know: Kerry Underwood

Kerry Underwood owns law firm Underwoods Solicitors in Marlowes – the main shirt sponsor for Hemel Hempstead Town FC. Kerry is a former judge, and can also list author and broadcaster among the professions in which he has enjoyed success. Underwoods Solicitors was founded in 1991 and Kerry is very proud of the company’s base in Hemel Hempstead.

What is your favourite food?

Curry

What’s the most played song on your iPod?

Elvis; It’s Now or Never – The single is the second best-selling single covered by Presley, and one of the best-selling singles of all time

Your favourite quote?

Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep – Tibetan Proverb

What is your Favourite thing to do to relax?

Read by the pool, watch football, travel

What is the thing you hate doing the most?

Taking calls from salesmen

Invite five famous people for dinner, past or present – who and why?

1) Elvis – Idol

2) Nelson Mandela – hero

3) TS Elliot – favourite writer

4) Lenin – interesting stories!

5) Genghis Khan – More interesting stories!

What was the last film you watched?

Casablanca – Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama anti-Nazi propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison’s unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, “love and virtue”

If the world was ending in 2014, what would you do differently?

Nothing

Your favourite thing to do or place to visit in Dacorum?

Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club ... OF COURSE!

If you could witness any event, past, present or future, what would it be and why?

QPR and Hemel Hempstead Town playing in the FA Cup Final

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Prime Minister

What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?

Speaking at my parents’ funerals

What is the best or worst gift you have ever given or received?

Elvis onesie from my goddaughter Phoebe!

How would you like to be remembered?

Hemel Hempstead’s favourite adopted son

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