Chicken Shop Date | |
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Genre | Interview |
Created by | Amelia Dimoldenberg |
Written by |
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Presented by | Amelia Dimoldenberg |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 99 |
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Executive producer | Amelia Dimoldenberg |
Production company | Dimz Inc. |
Original release | |
Network | YouTube |
Release | 12 March 2014 – present |
Chicken Shop Date is a British YouTube interview show created and hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg, and produced by her production company Dimz Inc. [1] 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 November 2024, 99 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." [2]
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. [3]
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." [2] 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. [3]
Chicken Shop Date originally began as a column written by a then 17-year-old Dimoldenberg for her local under-21s youth magazine. [4] Beginning by interviewing 'friends of friends', she decided to frame the chats as dates 'because that might be a fun way to interview people'. [5] The location of a chicken shop was chosen as "somewhere you wouldn't expect to be taken on a first date". [5] In 2014 Dimoldenberg met a camera operator, whom she "convinced to help film one of her dates". [6] 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. [6]
In 2024, Dimoldenberg's interview with Andrew Garfield became particularly successful, [3] 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. [7]
No. | Date of Episode | Guest | Ref. |
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1 | 12 March 2014 | Ghetts | |
2 | 30 June 2014 | DJ Logan Sama | |
3 | 6 November 2014 | Fuse ODG | [8] |
4 | 13 February 2015 | Jammer | |
5 | 20 December 2015 | Asim Chaudhry [a] | |
6 | 27 July 2016 | AJ Tracey | |
7 | 21 September 2016 | Arnold Jorge | |
8 | 8 November 2016 | Raleigh Ritchie | |
9 | 7 December 2016 | 67 | |
10 | 7 February 2017 | Cadet | |
11 | 14 February 2017 | The Chicken Connoisseur | |
12 | 31 March 2017 | Avelino | |
13 | 9 August 2017 | Kurupt FM | |
14 | 23 August 2017 | Maya Jama | |
15 | 6 September 2017 | Santan Dave | |
16 | 16 November 2017 | Krept and Konan | |
17 | 14 February 2018 | Not3s | |
18 | 17 April 2018 | Big Narstie | |
19 | 7 June 2018 | Suspect | |
20 | 5 July 2018 | Lady Leshurr | |
21 | 30 July 2018 | Big Zuu | |
22 | 9 August 2018 | Headie One | |
23 | 25 August 2018 | Sean Paul | |
24 | 6 September 2018 | D Double E | |
25 | 20 September 2018 | Mahalia | |
26 | 25 October 2018 | Mo Gilligan | |
27 | 13 January 2019 | Donae'o | |
28 | 4 February 2019 | Ms Banks | |
29 | 21 February 2019 | Chip | |
30 | 15 March 2019 | Charlie Cooper [b] | |
31 | 5 June 2019 | KSI | |
32 | 26 June 2019 | Aitch | [9] |
33 | 25 October 2019 | M Huncho | |
34 | 30 January 2020 | Daniel Kaluuya | |
35 | 14 February 2020 | Darkoo | |
36 | 26 March 2020 | Chunkz & Filly | |
37 | 7 May 2020 | Mike Skinner | |
38 | 18 June 2020 | Munya Chawawa | |
39 | 1 July 2020 | Jamie Demetriou [c] | |
40 | 23 July 2020 | 6LACK | |
41 | 2 October 2020 | Dutchavelli | |
42 | 18 December 2020 | Digga D | |
43 | 30 December 2020 | Jade Thirlwall | |
44 | 17 February 2021 | Slowthai | |
45 | 18 March 2021 | Bimini Bon Boulash | |
46 | 21 May 2021 | ArrDee | |
47 | 27 June 2021 | M1llionz | |
48 | 27 August 2021 | Shaybo | |
49 | 10 September 2021 | Jack Harlow | |
50 | 24 September 2021 | Tion Wayne | |
51 | 8 October 2021 | Joy Crookes | |
52 | 22 October 2021 | Finneas | |
53 | 3 November 2021 | Ed Sheeran | [8] |
54 | 17 November 2021 | Giveon | |
55 | 22 December 2021 | Tammy Abraham & John Stones | |
56 | 4 February 2022 | Bandokay | |
57 | 18 February 2022 | Louis Theroux | [8] |
58 | 18 March 2022 | Rex Orange County | |
59 | 1 April 2022 | Charli XCX | |
60 | 15 April 2022 | Nella Rose | |
61 | 29 April 2022 | Rosalía | |
62 | 13 May 2022 | Kojey Radical | |
63 | 8 July 2022 | Lucy Bronze & Beth Mead | |
64 | 22 July 2022 | Burna Boy | |
65 | 5 August 2022 | Summer Walker | |
66 | 12 August 2022 | Keke Palmer | |
67 | 26 August 2022 | Yungblud | |
68 | 23 September 2022 | Rema | |
69 | 14 October 2022 | Matty Healy | |
70 | 25 November 2022 | Meekz | |
71 | 9 December 2022 | Paddy Pimblett & Molly McCann | |
72 | 23 December 2022 | Phoebe Bridgers | |
73 | 20 January 2023 | Kehlani | |
74 | 3 February 2023 | Fumez the Engineer | |
75 | 14 February 2023 | Central Cee | |
76 | 10 March 2023 | Shania Twain | |
77 | 31 March 2023 | Flo | |
78 | 12 May 2023 | Lewis Capaldi | [10] |
79 | 26 May 2023 | Jonas Brothers | [11] |
80 | 30 June 2023 | Jennifer Lawrence | |
81 | 11 August 2023 | Fredo | |
82 | 13 October 2023 | Kaytranada | |
83 | 3 November 2023 | Sean Evans | [12] |
84 | 24 November 2023 | Dominic Fike | |
85 | 1 December 2023 | Cher | [13] |
86 | 15 December 2023 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | |
87 | 26 January 2024 | Paul Mescal | |
88 | 22 March 2024 | Lando Norris | |
89 | 10 May 2024 | Potter Payper | |
90 | 24 May 2024 | Tems | |
91 | 7 June 2024 | Raye | |
92 | 21 June 2024 | Eric André | |
93 | 5 July 2024 | SZA | [14] |
94 | 12 July 2024 | Billie Eilish | [15] |
95 | 27 July 2024 | Ryan Reynolds & Hugh Jackman | |
96 | 23 August 2024 | Sabrina Carpenter | |
97 | 27 September 2024 | Ghetts (2) [d] | |
98 | 18 October 2024 | Andrew Garfield | |
99 | 15 November 2024 | Elmo |
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." [3]
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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2021 | Streamy Awards | Indie Series | Chicken Shop Date | Won | [16] |
2022 | Streamy Awards | Unscripted Series | Nominated | [17] | |
Show of the Year | Nominated | ||||
2023 | National Television Awards | Interview Series | Nominated | [18] | |
Streamy Awards | Unscripted Series | Nominated | [19] | ||
Show of the Year | Nominated |
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