‘Chicken Shop Date’ host Amelia Dimoldenberg teaches how to conduct perfect interview

Class, be seated. It’s time to learn how to stalk celebrities.

Chicken Shop Date host and interviewess with the mostess Amelia Dimoldenberg takes viewers back to school in an exclusive new video for Entertainment Weekly.

“I’m going to teach you how to become the greatest interviewer of all time. Well, second greatest, because I’m still around obviously,” she says in front of a transparent whiteboard covered in complex, scholarly scrawlings.

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Dimoldenberg rose to fame with Chicken Shop Date, an interview series in which she probes celebs while dining on strips and chips around various London chicken shops. What began back in 2014 as a regular column for a local youth magazine has grown into a formidable media empire, with a YouTube channel boasting 3 million subscribers as its crown jewel.

The host has become beloved for her flat delivery, pervading flirtatiousness, and ability to get under the skin of even her most composed guests. Viral moments from interviews with Andrew Garfield (“I think we’d have a really nice time without the camera”) and Shania Twain (“I think [Brad Pitt] is avoiding me”) have led to red carpet gigs at the Academy Awards and most recently SNL50.

Now, she’s finally ready to reveal her secrets.

Dimoldenberg utilizes a number of key tactics to yield great interviews: first and foremost, “stalk your guests” (“I don’t mean like actually stalk them,” she clarifies. “Do your research”); serve food (“eating while talking is a great way to make things conversational”); and finally, “Let it be awkward.” Allowing awkwardness to hang in the air, even using awkward silence as a strategy to pull interesting reactions out of her guests, is a skill that any Chicken Shop Date viewer can attest Dimoldenberg has in spades.

For the rest of Dimoldenberg’s sage advice on contriving a fruitful interview, watch the full video above.