Amelia Dimoldenberg has confirmed that Chicken Shop Date will end after its next season, bringing to a close one of the internet’s most enduring interview formats. The British writer, presenter and producer made the announcement on Thursday, with the final run set to come from Dimz Inc., the media company she founded to house the show.
Dimoldenberg first conceived Chicken Shop Date as a column at 17. The filmed version launched on YouTube in 2014 and built steadily into a cultural fixture, with Dimoldenberg deploying deadpan humour and the deliberately mundane backdrop of a local chicken shop to conduct interviews framed as dates. Guests across the show’s run have included Billie Eilish, Daniel Kaluuya, Central Cee, Cher, Andrew Garfield, Dave, Little Simz, Louis Theroux and Jack Harlow.
“When I was 17, I thought that I might meet the love of my life on a date in a chicken shop. Since then, I’ve spent my entire twenties sat across from the most incredible people, people I’d always dreamt of meeting. All of them charmed me (some more than others), and I definitely charmed them,” Dimoldenberg said in her Instagram post.
She said she had not anticipated the show ever ending. “I never thought I’d end Chicken Shop Date. I thought maybe it would be a part of my life forever, and in some way it always will, but I feel like it’s now time to move on from this adventure and onto the next one.”
According to data from Dimz Inc., the series drove YouTube views from around 490 million in 2022 to one billion in its tenth year, accumulating 34 million hours watched and reaching 97 percent of countries worldwide. Beyond the show, Dimoldenberg has served as the Oscars’ official Social Media Ambassador and Red Carpet Correspondent for two consecutive years and appeared on Time’s 100 Creators list.
Final episodes are due “coming very soon,” she said.
