Evette Ríos is an American bilingual lifestyle expert, writer, television host, designer and native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage.
Ríos is currently the host of a hugely successful Facebook Live series called "Slice", a collaboration with The Little Things, a viral Facebook channel. She has received over 1 million views over her first four 15 minute episodes [1] she also hosted CBS' adaptation of Recipe Rehab, which currently airs on Z Living.[2] Most recently she hosted The Way Home for A&E (TV channel) Networks including FYI (U.S. TV channel), Lifetime (TV network), LMN (TV network) and A&E (TV channel)[3] with Megan Colarossi. Prior to that she hosted DreamQuest with Evette Ríos, which was produced with Litton Entertainment for the CW Network.[4] She served as a guest co-host and field correspondent on ABC's The Chew,[5] where she reports on new food and lifestyle trends around the country. She was a designer on In a Fix on TLC, FreeStyle on HGTV [6] and The G Word on Planet Green.[7]
Evette is a contributing design expert and “buddy” on the Daytime Emmy Award winning Rachael Ray (TV series) and is a regular contributor, in fluent Spanish, to Al Despertar, Tu Desayuno Alegre and Despierta América all on Univision. She has also made guest appearances on The Today Show on NBC, The Early Show and the CW11 Morning Show. She was recently invited by Rachael Ray to be one of her 7 “buddies” on the newly rebranded EHow Food Channel.[8]
She is a contributor to Latina Magazine, Everyday with Rachael Ray Magazine, Siempre Mujer,[9] rachaelray.com [10] and is a contributing editor of BHG.com (Better Homes And Gardens magazine's website) and the face of its annual 100 Days of Holidays program.[11] She contributed a chapter to the best selling book, The Experts Guide To Doing Things Faster published By Clarkson Potter.[12] She also serves as food editor for the Latina lifestyle website Mamiverse.com.[13] and has headlining blogs on Xojane.com[14] and Parade.com.[15]
In July 2012 she became the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International.[16]
The December/January 2012 issue of Latina Magazine named Ríos one of the 50 reasons to love being Latina and the "Mobile Martha Stewart".[17] Evette's work on The Chew made her the only Latina on a national daytime talk show.[17]