Chicken Shop Date is a British YouTube interview show created and hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg, and produced by her production company Dimz Inc. The show features celebrity interviews that are framed as dates in a local chicken shop.
The series' first YouTube video was posted in March 2014, and as of 19 June 2026, 115 episodes have been released. The show has been nominated for several awards, winning Indie Series at the Streamy Awards in 2022 after garnering popularity for its "gleeful subversion of the classic late-night talk show format."
On 3 September 2026, Dimoldenberg announced that the show would be ending after twelve years.
Format The format of Chicken Shop Date involves Amelia Dimoldenberg meeting a celebrity guest at a local chicken shop for a date. A humorous element is the setting of the chicken shop, a brightly lit fast food shop that is generally not considered a romantic setting.
Dimoldenberg has revealed that each episode takes around forty minutes to film, but finished episodes last no longer than eight minutes. "Only the funniest, flirtiest moments survive, spliced together with strategically deployed B-roll of food prep and the chicken shop's staff at work." Questions asked are often chaotic, awkward, and playful, as well as questions such as "snog, marry, avoid?". Dimoldenberg flirts with her guests, often alternating between flattery and teasing insults.
Production Chicken Shop Date is shot in fried-chicken restaurants around London. Each episode costs around six thousand dollars to produce. As of March 2025, Dimoldenberg employed a creative producer, a social media manager, and a personal assistant. Since “Chicken Shop Date” is released roughly once a month, she selects her guests carefully, stating "It has to feel like an organic fit. I need to genuinely be a fan of them and their work. If I fancy them, that's a bonus. It is a dating show, after all." Dimoldenberg usually films for thirty to forty minutes. In the show's early years, final episodes were trimmed to three or four minutes, but they now often extend up to twelve.
Dimoldenberg's onscreen persona is largely shaped during the editing process, which she oversees. The character's standoffishness and awkwardness are accentuated through jump cuts and extended shots of her expressive, often quizzical facial expressions.
History
Chicken Shop Date originally began as a column written by a then 17-year-old Dimoldenberg for her local under-21s youth magazine. Beginning by interviewing 'friends of friends', she decided to frame the chats as dates 'because that might be a fun way to interview people'. The location of a chicken shop was chosen as "somewhere you wouldn't expect to be taken on a first date". In 2014, Dimoldenberg met a camera operator, whom she "convinced to help film one of her dates". This was with the rapper Ghetts and was the first Chicken Shop Date video uploaded to YouTube. It attracted just over one thousand views in the first two weeks.
Initially, Chicken Shop Date exclusively featured male guests, as Dimoldenberg was hesitant to include women out of concern that the dating premise would not translate. However, reconsidering this literal interpretation, she began featuring female guests in 2017, and some of the show's most popular episodes have since included women. At first, as with the original column, most of the interviews were with musicians in the south London grime and hip-hop scene. In 2020, actor Daniel Kaluuya became her first major guest outside of music to be featured, with their video garnering five million views and setting the stage for other major stars to be featured on the show.
In 2024, Dimoldenberg's interview with Andrew Garfield became particularly successful, largely due to a viral "meet-cute" that took place between her and Garfield on the red carpet of the 2022 British GQ Men of the Year awards, and a second meeting on the red carpet of the 2023 Golden Globe Awards.
On 3 September 2026, Dimoldenberg announced that, after twelve years, the show would be ending. She said there would be "a few more dates" before the show officially ended.
List of episodes 2014 No. Date of Episode Guest112 MarchGhetts230 JuneLogan Sama36 NovemberFuse ODG
2015 No. Date of Episode Guest413 FebruaryJammer520 DecemberAsim Chaudhry
2016 No. Date of Episode Guest627 JulyAJ Tracey721 SeptemberArnold Jorge88 NovemberRaleigh Ritchie97 December67
2017 No. Date of Episode Guest107 FebruaryCadet1114 FebruaryThe Chicken Connoisseur1231 MarchAvelino139 AugustKurupt FM1423 AugustMaya Jama156 SeptemberSantan Dave1616 NovemberKrept and Konan
2018 No. Date of Episode Guest1714 FebruaryNot3s1817 AprilBig Narstie197 JuneSuspect205 JulyLady Leshurr2130 JulyBig Zuu229 AugustHeadie One2325 AugustSean Paul246 SeptemberD Double E2520 SeptemberMahalia2625 OctoberMo Gilligan
2019 No. Date of Episode Guest2713 JanuaryDonae'o284 FebruaryMs Banks2921 FebruaryChip3015 March Charlie Cooper 315 JuneKSI3226 JuneAitch3325 OctoberM Huncho
2020 No. Date of Episode Guest3430 JanuaryDaniel Kaluuya3514 FebruaryDarkoo3626 MarchChunkz & Yung Filly377 MayMike Skinner3818 JuneMunya Chawawa 391 JulyJamie Demetriou 4023 July6lack412 OctoberDutchavelli4218 DecemberDigga D4330 DecemberJade Thirlwall
2021 No. Date of Episode Guest4417 FebruarySlowthai4518 MarchBimini Bon-Boulash4621 MayArrDee4727 JuneM1llionz4827 AugustShaybo4910 SeptemberJack Harlow5024 SeptemberTion Wayne518 OctoberJoy Crookes5222 OctoberFinneas533 NovemberEd Sheeran5417 NovemberGiveon5522 DecemberTammy Abraham & John Stones
2022 No. Date of Episode Guest564 FebruaryBandokay5718 FebruaryLouis Theroux5818 MarchRex Orange County591 AprilCharli XCX6015 AprilNella Rose6129 AprilRosalía6213 MayKojey Radical638 JulyLucy Bronze & Beth Mead6422 JulyBurna Boy655 AugustSummer Walker6612 AugustKeke Palmer6726 AugustYungblud6823 SeptemberRema6914 OctoberMatty Healy7025 NovemberMeekz719 DecemberPaddy Pimblett & Molly McCann7223 DecemberPhoebe Bridgers
2023 No. Date of Episode Guest7320 JanuaryKehlani743 FebruaryFumez the Engineer7514 FebruaryCentral Cee7610 MarchShania Twain7731 MarchFlo7812 MayLewis Capaldi7926 MayJonas Brothers8030 JuneJennifer Lawrence8111 AugustFredo8213 OctoberKaytranada833 NovemberSean Evans8424 NovemberDominic Fike851 DecemberCher8615 DecemberChicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2024 No. Date of Episode Guest8726 JanuaryPaul Mescal8822 MarchLando Norris8910 MayPotter Payper9024 MayTems917 JuneRaye9221 JuneEric André935 JulySZA9412 JulyBillie Eilish9527 JulyRyan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman9623 AugustSabrina Carpenter9727 SeptemberGhetts (2)9818 OctoberAndrew Garfield9915 NovemberElmo
2025 No. Date of Episode Guest10031 JanuaryCynthia Erivo10121 FebruaryHarris Dickinson1027 MarchJennie10321 MarchAlex Consani10411 AprilBen Stiller1059 MayLittle Simz1066 JuneBella Hadid10713 JuneLoyle Carner10820 JuneAddison Rae10927 JuneIdris Elba1103 JulyJonathan Bailey11111 JulyDamson Idris11225 JulyTrixie Mattel
2026 No. Date of Episode Guest11313 MarchConan O'Brien11429 MayPaul McCartney11519 JuneZara Larsson1162 OctoberRole Model
Reception Jason Zinoman of The New York Times described Dimoldenberg as "flamboyantly unimpressed", and that "over the past decade, she has consistently produced entertainingly charged conversations."
Accolades +YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)Result2021Streamy AwardsIndie SeriesChicken Shop Date2022Streamy AwardsUnscripted SeriesShow of the Year2023National Television AwardsInterview SeriesStreamy AwardsUnscripted SeriesShow of the Year
See also
Hot Ones The Chicken Connoisseur
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