Amelia Dimoldenberg: I wouldn't invite Andy Burnham on Chicken Shop Date - but I'd love a chat

Amelia Dimoldenberg: I wouldn't invite Andy Burnham on Chicken Shop Date - but I'd love a chatImage caption, Amelia Dimoldenberg pictured at the BBC interviewByNoor NanjiCulture correspondentPublished5 minutes agoAmelia Dimoldenberg is the queen of the deadpan silence.But when I ask her if she would ever invite the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, on to her wildly popular YouTube series, she doesn't skip a beat."I don't think that maybe he's my type for Chicken Shop Date," she declares.That might disappoint "social first" Burnham, who's made it clear he plans to court content creators to help get his message out.Still, Dimoldenberg - who has become one of the UK's best-known content creators with millions of followers - says she's not against the idea of the prime minister collaborating with people like her, and in fact would "love" a chat with him.While some warn it's a way of dodging serious scrutiny of policies, she views it as "a positive thing" to be working with social media influencers, "because that is now where so many people get their news"."I don't think it means he's only going to be speaking to vloggers forever, really," she adds.Image source, Getty ImagesI meet Dimoldenberg not in a chicken shop, but in a studio in BBC Broadcasting House in central London. She's OK with that though ("I love the pot plants," she says. "It's fantastic. I'm very happy to be here.")It's been more than a decade since she set up Chicken Shop Date. Since then, she's interviewed everyone from Cher to Ed Sheeran, and has become a celebrity in her own right.The show is based around her trademark dry, awkward flirting style. In person, I find her inscrutable. You get the sense she's judging your questions (I was secretly relieved when she told me later they were great).But she visibly lights up when talking about her...