{"id":588873,"date":"2026-09-03T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588873\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:44:09","slug":"amelia-dimoldenbergs-chicken-shop-date-to-end-after-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588873\/","title":{"rendered":"Amelia Dimoldenberg’s ‘Chicken Shop Date’ To End After 12 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmelia Dimoldenberg<\/a>, the creator behind\u00a0Chicken Shop Date<\/a>, has announced that she is bringing the hit YouTube interview series to a close after a \u201cfinal few dates\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe online creator, who began the series as a column at the age of 17 and has since interviewed talent such as Billie Eilish, Andrew Garfield and Paul McCartney, made the announcement on Thursday on her Instagram account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was 17, I thought that I might meet the love of my life on a date in a chicken shop,\u201d she said. \u201cSince then, I\u2019ve spent my entire twenties sat across from the most incredible people, people I\u2019d always dreamt of meeting. All of them charmed me (some more than others), and I definitely charmed them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo me, the show is my very own romcom, and I have loved being able to share it with you. I am so grateful to everyone who has followed me on this journey and found a bit of joy in these episodes. I never thought I\u2019d end\u00a0Chicken 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\u2019s now time to move on from this adventure and onto the next one.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tChicken Shop Date\u00a0sees Dimoldenberg ask guests a series of questions in a flirty, and often awkward way, while on a date in a fried chicken restaurant. While the brand initially started off as a column in a youth-run magazine, Dimoldenberg parlayed the idea into a digital series which has been increasingly used by film marketing teams as part of the press cycle for film promotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn recent years, the show, which Dimoldenberg has been producing under her Dimz Inc. label, has attracted top tier actors such as Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba as well as Paul Mescal, Harris Dickenson, Louis Theroux and Jack Harlow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDimoldenberg\u2019s YouTube channel has more than 3.4 million subscribers. Since 2022, the series\u2019 social following increased from 830,000 to 4.4 million and on YouTube, the series has driven around one billion views across its run.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to a statement, the final\u00a0Chicken Shop Date\u00a0series will have \u201ca last line-up of eclectic guests joining Amelia in the chicken shop before she closes this chapter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Dimoldenberg said that she is developing<\/a> a young adult drama series for the BBC, which she dubbed as \u201cmy version of\u00a0Skins.\u201d She is also developing an upcoming romantic comedy film with Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 Orion Pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amelia Dimoldenberg, the creator behind\u00a0Chicken Shop Date, has announced that she is bringing the hit YouTube interview series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[120955,430,289772,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-588873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amelia-dimoldenberg","tag-celebrities","tag-chicken-shop-date","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}