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Amelia Dimoldenberg

English journalist and comedian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ96186639
Source-derived summary

Amelia Dimoldenberg ( dih-MOHL-dən-burg; born 30 January 1994) is an English comedian, writer, and presenter. She is the creator and host of the web series Chicken Shop Date (2014–present), in which she interviews celebrities in fried chicken restaurants while subjecting them to her sarcastic, deadpan, and awkward sense of humour.

In 2025, Dimoldenberg was named in Time magazine's inaugural "TIME100 Creators" list, which features the 100 most influential digital content creators.

Early life and education

Amelia Dimoldenberg was born on 30 January 1994. She is the daughter of Paul Dimoldenberg, a former Labour Councillor and public relations executive, who served on Westminster City Council until his retirement in 2026. She has a sister, Zoe. Dimoldenberg and her family are Jewish.

Dimoldenberg was raised in Marylebone, London, and attended St Marylebone School. She gained A-levels in English, art, politics, and IT, and later studied for a foundation diploma in Art and Design and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins constituent college of the University of the Arts London. Graduating in 2017, Dimoldenberg received an honorary fellowship in 2024.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Amelia Dimoldenberg” as english journalist and comedian. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2014, 2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-01-30. The account is most persuasive where Amelia, Dimoldenberg and English can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as english journalist and comedian. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q96186639. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2014, 2025 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from Amelia Dimoldenberg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.