Amelia Dimoldenberg to close doors of Chicken Shop Date

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Amelia Dimoldenberg to close doors of Chicken Shop Date

ByNaomi de Souza

BBC Newsbeat
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Amelia Dimoldenberg has announced she will end Chicken Shop Date after more than a decade.

The presenter, known for her off-the-wall questions and deadpan silences, revealed the news in an Instagram post.

She has become one of the UK’s best-known content creators through the web series, which features interviews with rappers, actors and celebrities framed as a “date” with the host.

While “all good dates must come to an end”, Dimoldenberg told fans to expect “a few final dates” before the show officially ends.

Amelia sits opposite Cynthia Erivo at a table in a takeaway shop. Amelia wears a glamourous, grey sparkly dress as she tucks into a chicken nugget. Cynthia, wearing a green top, looks towards the camera, her extra long, decorated nails standing out.Image source, Dimz Inc

“To me the show is my very own rom-com and I have loved creating so many stories for you to watch,” she wrote.

“I am so grateful to everyone who has followed me on this journey and found some joy in these episodes.

“I never thought I’d stop Chicken Shop Date, I thought maybe it would be a part of me forever, and in some way it always will, but I feel like it’s now time to move on from this adventure and on to a new one.”

Dimoldenberg’s most recent interviewees have included music heavyweight Paul McCartney, Swedish pop star Zara Larsson and US television host Conan O’Brien.

She previously told the BBC how Chicken Shop Date had grown out of a series of interviews with grime artists she conducted as a teenager for culture magazine The Cut.

“I started Chicken Shop Date as part of a youth club, and we made a magazine, and everything I learned there, the connections I made, the mentoring I got, set me up for the career that I have today,” she said.

Amelia wears a bejewelled pink dress with straps. She stands against a pink floral background and looks to her side, with her strawberry blonde hair sitting at shoulder lengthImage source, Getty Images

The presenter has also been a vocal supporter of training programmes and apprenticeships to help young people into employment.

Yet success hasn’t come overnight, as she told BBC Newsbeat last year.

“Some people think it’s been, like, two years,” she said.

“I spent so much time trying to persuade publicists, managers and talent to come on the show.”

The creator said that in 2014, social media wasn’t seen as the best place to promote a celebrity’s latest album, film or product.

Chicken Shop Date has since gone on to rank alongside platforms like Graham Norton’s chatshow or BBC Radio 1 for celebrities seeking media cut-through, she told The Guardian, external last month.

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