Amelia Dimoldenberg is ending Chicken Shop Date, the deadpan interview series that turned an awkward date-night bit filmed above a London chicken shop into one of the most recognizable formats on YouTube, after 12 years. The British comedian and presenter announced the decision this week, saying a "few final dates" remain before the show wraps for good.
"I never thought I'd stop Chicken Shop Date," Dimoldenberg wrote in her announcement. "I thought maybe it would be a part of me forever, but I feel like it's now time to move on from this adventure and onto a new one."
Dimoldenberg launched the series in 2014 as a teenager covering London's underground rap scene, sitting across a plastic table from guests over boxes of wings and asking pointedly unglamorous questions in a flat, unbothered tone that became the format's signature. The show stayed a cult favorite for years before a 2021 interview with rapper Jack Harlow went viral, pulling in a mainstream audience that has since included Paul McCartney, Cher, Sabrina Carpenter, Andrew Garfield, the Jonas Brothers and, memorably, Elmo.
From Chicken Shop to Red Carpet
That crossover appeal turned Dimoldenberg into one of the more unlikely red-carpet fixtures in entertainment, with correspondent stints at the Oscars and the Golden Globes and a cameo in "The Devil Wears Prada 2." She is now set to star in and produce a romantic comedy for Amazon MGM Studios' Orion Pictures, playing a journalist whose life is upended after a celebrity interview turns into an unexpected romance — a premise that borrows fairly directly from her own career arc, according to Deadline's report on the show's ending.
News of the ending drew an immediate wave of tributes online from past guests and fans who credited the series with reshaping celebrity interviews for the internet era, trading polished junket questions for a format built almost entirely on discomfort and deadpan chemistry. Imitators have multiplied in the years since, but none have matched the original's mix of viral guest bookings and Dimoldenberg's specific comic persona.
No premiere date has been set for the final episodes, and Dimoldenberg has not said whether "Chicken Shop Date" will continue in some form without her at the center of it or end outright with her departure. What is clear is that the show closes a chapter that began as a scrappy YouTube experiment and ended as a launching pad into film, television and awards-season media — a trajectory that mirrors the wider shift of internet creators into traditional entertainment over the past decade.
