YouTube to Hollywood: Amelia Dimoldenberg Opens Her Playbook

DIGITAL FIRST “I’m glad I put it on YouTube,” Amelia Dimoldenberg tells me of Chicken Shop Date . “If I had put it on a traditional broadcaster, the show would be completely unrecognizable.” (Courtesy of subject) Share Welcome back to another Creator Spotlight. Check out my previous interviews with The Drey Dossier’s Audrey Henson , AI educator Harper Carroll and Fantasy Footballers host Andy Holloway . Who should I spotlight next? Email me at natalie@theankler.com It’s a sunny afternoon and Amelia Dimoldenberg is in the middle of a busy day preparing for her third stint as an Oscars red carpet correspondent and social media ambassador. The Brit has set up camp in Los Angeles as she watches all the nominated films, devours profiles of the nominees and plans out her questions so that when she encounters, say, Jacob Elordi as he walks into Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, she can slip naturally into the deadpan affectation she perfected on her wildly popular YouTube series Chicken Shop Date . “I want people to think that I’m there just stumbling upon a conversation,” says Dimoldenberg. “It’s to the point where people don’t think that I’ve written any questions beforehand, which is kind of crazy.”
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