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Project Runway's Kenley Collins in Jail for Attacking Fiance with Pussycat

> Posted by Rod Hagwood at 4:58:04 PM on SunSentinel.com

She's not just a hellcat.

She's hell on cats.

Kenley Collins - the serial-rude contestant from season five of Project Runway - spent St. Patrick's Day caged behind bars after being arrested for attacking her boyfriend with (in no particular order):

1. a laptop

2. assorted apples and water glasses

3. a door (slammed his head in it we hear)

4. a living, breathing probably-pissed-off cat

The third-placer allegedly went ballistic on her sleeping ex-fiance - one Zak Penley - in their shared Brooklyn home early yesterday morning according to TMZ.com. We can only assume that it was too early to have a St. Patrick's Day buzz, so maybe he wasn't wearing a fashionable shade of green.

According to papers from the D.A., Kenley ripped into her lover-slash-victim with, "You're lucky. It could've been a lot worse."

That is true. He might still be her fiance. Seriously dude, you live with your ex-fiance and you close your eyes? Do you have a death wish?

Here's a delicious detail from the cat-astrophe: if they DID get married she'd be Mrs. Kenley Penley.

Kenley Penley.

That's only slightly funny...after the first few years of marriage.

Kenley has been charged with six crimes including 2nd degree assault, 3rd degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree.

Hey, what about animal cruelty?

Can't wait to see the puddy-tat on Larry King and Inside Edition.

The youngest of three girls, Collins began her career at 16 when she started reconstructing vintage clothing. The 26-year-old daughter of a Broward County tugboat captain, Collins has a marketing degree from Florida State University.

After graduating from FSU in 2005, Collins set her sights on crashing the New York scene. In a relatively short time, she has supported herself by teaching sewing classes and designing childrenswear, and even managed to get a few of her designs into a boutique.

Collins rose quickly with her Bettie Page hairstyle and boundless energy, morphing a sales job at Missy Wear into a design position within a week.

She auditioned for HGTV’s Design Star while working for what she calls a “cheesy women’s wear company.” That job did give her two years of Seventh Avenue design experience and invaluable insight into the garment business.

“I am a very ambitious person,” Collins told me in a telephone interview days before the fifth season premiered on July 16th in 2008. “I’m a hard worker.”

On her MySpace page at the time, the one-time bartender described herself as "a tough girly-girl who likes to make clothes, listen to music, watch movies and drink dirty martinis."

And cat-fighting....she forgot to mention her nuanced cat-fighting. Faster pussycat, kill, kill.

In that 2008 interview, I asked Kenley how she thought she'd come across once the series starting airing in the middle of that summer.

She answered: "I know I laugh a lot. I don't want people to think that's all I do. I may not be portrayed in the best way. I'm very outspoken and I'm not very sensitive to others - especially in that sort of environment. I want people to know that I'm a nice person and I have a big heart and I think it shows. We'll have to see. A lot happened in that time."