I’m extremely excited to present one of CLEO TV’s hottest lifestyle series. The show features Jake and Jazz Smollett, buzz-worthy influencers who share home design solutions, recipes and entertaining ideas for millennials. Think “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” mixed with a show from the Food Network with a millennial twist! The premiere episode will feature the Smolletts’ creative expressions and all-around lifestyle skills as they remake spaces, prepare meals and inspire viewers to live by design.
The highly anticipated lifestyle series LIVING BY DESIGN WITH JAKE AND JAZZ featuring brother/sister duo Jakeand Jazz Smollett, premiered on Saturday, May 4 at 12 p.m. ET. Jake and Jazz team up to transform the living, work, and play spaces of millennial families and create simple solutions to everyday home design dilemmas. Each episode features inspirational stories of participating guests, an exciting reveal of the new space and a shared meal with recipes curated by Jake and Jazz.
In the premiere episode, Jake and Jazz help revamp the studio apartment of a budding publicist, Meghan, who’s relocated to Koreatown – a hip, urban center in Los Angeles. Jazz takes Meghan’s space from drab to fab with beautiful pops of pink and bold accent pieces, while Jake builds her a custom headboard. During the exciting reveal, not only is there a surprise guest from back home, but Jake and Jazz also show Meghan how to entertain in her new space. They toast to the good life with Rosé margaritas and indulge in surf and turf tacos complete with shrimp and steak. To top off the appetizing meal, Jazz bakes fluffy brown sugar doughnuts and piles them high enough to find their way to your heart.
The multifaceted duo are buzz-worthy influencers who’ve made a mark in the lifestyle and cooking arenas. Jake is a celebrity chef, lifestyle guru, actor and content creator who also executive produced the Food Network series “Smollett Eats.” He has also appeared on “The Today Show,” “The Chew” and is a resident chef on “The Rachael Ray Show.” Jazz is a cook, author, lifestyle expert, creative content producer and influencer with a successful career in television producing, most recently working as a producer for the film “Little.” She’s contributed recipes and lifestyle tips on “The Real,” “The Today Show,” “The Chew,” “The Rachael Ray Show,” “Home and Family,” and YouTube’s parenting channel, “What’s Up Moms.“
Tune into the series to see the Smolletts’ creative expressions and all-around lifestyle skills as they remake spaces, prepare meals and inspire viewers to live by design.
LIVING BY DESIGN WITH JAKE AND JAZZ is produced by Powerhouse Productions, with Rochelle Brown and Sonia Armstead serving as Executive Producers. For CLEO TV, Gold Morgan and Susan Henry are Executive Producers in Charge of Production; Donyell Kennedy-McCullough is Senior Director of Talent & Casting, and Robyn Greene Arrington is Vice President of Original Programming and Production.