Amelia Dimoldenberg leaves Chicken Shop Date after twelve years and starts a new adventure

Amelia Dimoldenberg has announced the end of her YouTube show, Chicken Shop Date, after 12 years as she shares her plans for a ‘new adventure’.

The comedian, 32, who describes herself as ‘refreshingly awkward’, has interviewed big names on her show, including Cher, Andrew Garfield And Jennifer Lawrence.

But Amelia has now revealed that her professional dating career is over and she will soon end her show with ‘a few final dates’.

Amelia’s upcoming projects include starring in Amazon MGM’s Orion Pictures rom-com and writing a Skins-style drama with the BBCwhich still has to light green.

The presenter announced the news on her Instagram page on Thursday, with a note on a napkin that read: ‘All good dates come to an end.’

Fans of Amelia and the show immediately shared their devastation at the end of Chicken Shop, with one describing it as the ‘worst breakup yet’.

Explaining her decision, Amelia wrote: ‘When I was 17, I had a fantastic idea that I could meet the love of my life on a date in a chicken shop.

‘I spent my entire twenties sitting across from the most incredible people, people I’d always dreamed of meeting. They all charmed me (some more than others) and I certainly charmed them.

“For me, the show is my own rom-com and I loved creating so many stories for you to watch. I am so grateful to everyone who has followed me on this journey and found some joy in these episodes.

‘I never thought I would quit Chicken Shop Date, I thought maybe it would be a part of me forever, and somehow it always will, but I feel like now is the time to move on from this adventure and start a new one.

‘But before I say goodbye for good, I want to celebrate everything Chicken Shop Date has been to me with a few final dates… coming very soon. Love Amelia x,’

The comments section of the post was flooded with messages from fans of the show wanting to wish her well and share their sadness over the show’s end.

Elizabeth Day said: “As always, I admire you immensely. Knowing when to stop – and leaving on such a high, after shaping the culture – is the ultimate power move. Congratulations. I love you xxx’.

Grace Campbell wrote: ‘I love you (heart)’.

Rina Lipa shared a series of heart emojis.

Diversity dancer Perri Kiely said: ‘You really paved the way! Congratulations dude!’.

The idea of ​​Chicken Shop Date was introduced as a print column in The Cut, a youth-run magazine, around 2011, when she was 17.

The idea of ​​presenting the interviews as first dates came from wanting to do something different, and the idea of ​​setting them in a chicken shop was because she wanted to go somewhere where no one went on dates.

Amelia started interviewing friends of friends from the music scene while studying and the links to her online articles started to become more and more popular.

She took her idea to people in “big places” but said they struggled to ever know what to do with it, which led to her starting recording videos of her chats and posting them on YouTube.

Amelia started the video version of her show in March 2014, with Ghetts as her first guest. For the first few years she focused on talking to grime artists.

The 2014 interview has now been viewed 1.3 million times and the pair, who are now good friends, celebrated Chicken Shop Date’s tenth anniversary last year by going on a second date.

The videos post the first episode of the series and see her interviewing the guests in a comedic, awkward manner and asking them questions about their love lives.

And to this day, she says her unusual interview style is authentic.

In 2017, Amelia started starring women after initially being concerned that the dating principle wouldn’t work with female guests.

“I wanted to be the antithesis of a bubbly host because that bored me,” she told Complex.

‘The average TV presenter was very good at being chatty and bubbly non-stop; I wanted to be the opposite of that and make that my thing. It’s an exaggerated version of myself.

“Actually, when it first started, it wasn’t a character, it was never intended to be that way. It’s literally how it happened, people must have assumed I was so bizarre or so weird that it had to be a character.

Inspired by Louis Theroux, who she has since had as a guest on her own show, she said her deadpan nature came from when she started out – and from being genuinely nervous about meeting rappers.

“Whatever happened was funny, just that little blonde girl in a chicken shop, with like Stylo G,” she said.

“It was just a weird situation and super awkward and it was exactly like how the show is filmed now, but I was so nervous about filming it.”

Since then, she has interviewed some of the biggest names the industry has to offer, including Cher, Paul Mescal, Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish.

Now that she has 2.9 million subscribers on YouTube and her videos receive no less than a million views per episode, the creator is believed to earn around £6,000 per episode.

The series won a Stremy Award in 2022 and won the Content and Entertainment Award at The Drum Awards in November 2024.

In addition to her own productions, Amelia has also become an established name as a well-known face on the red carpet.

Now recognized by most celebrities passing through, she has done interviews at the Baftas, the Brits, MTV VMAs, GQ Awards and film premieres including Barbie.

Before Amelia’s much-loved series ends for good, she revealed she has a few more dates to go in one final series.

A teaser for the next episode, captioned “We Need To Talk,” hints that her next guest will be Paul C. Brunson, as that is the name of his own podcast.

Amelia has previously said her dream guest is Drake, who she has yet to interview, but there’s still time!