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Hungry for More
New York magazine
|The Cut Special Issue - September 2024
A decade of Chicken Shop Date behind her, Amelia Dimoldenberg is still holding out for the One.
OPINIONS DIFFER ON which episode of Chicken Shop Date got people to remember Amelia Dimoldenberg’s name. The 2021 episode in which she asks Jack Harlow if he can read? Or maybe 2022’s viral TikTok dance set to her interview with documentarian Louis Theroux was what really did it. Daniel Kaluuya’s 2020 episode went triple platinum in my browser history, but it’s all personal preference.
Whatever your pick, she’s no longer a semianonymous Englishwoman at whom people just yell “Chicken!” on the street. Now, with piles of burgers and fries between us at a Los Angeles In-N-Out—alas, the post-awardsshow celebration spot doesn’t serve nuggets—Dimoldenberg gets the star treatment with several fans pausing for a closer look, stopping by the table to announce “I love your videos!” or, in one follower’s case, DM-ing her later to commend the early-morning cheeseburger. (It was, in fact, 10:30 a.m.)
The attention is no surprise. Chicken Shop Date
This story is from the The Cut Special Issue - September 2024 edition of New York magazine.
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