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Who’s that girl?

That so-called “Kitchen Counselor” in the Cascade commercial look familiar? It is 1993 Lake Highlands High School grad Leslie Collins In the pervasive ad, she sweeps in to save couples from household disaster. She also appears alongside Tina Fey in a back-to-school themed Chase Bank ad.

Collins, who now lives in New York City, has fond memories of her Lake Highlands days. As a member of the LHHS theater program, she played the lead in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” competed at UIL, and was a member of the show choir, Espree. “Nancy Poynter [theater] and Mollie McCullough [music] gave me a foundation of learning that I use every day of my creative life,” Collins says. “Mrs. Poynter taught me discipline although I had no idea at the time she was doing that. If I showed up unprepared for class, I’d run the risk of someone else getting cast in the part I wanted. I learned real fast, you had to do the work to get the results to be an artist you didn’t just dye your hair black,