Sarah Palin's Hair Salon, The Beehive, Gets Reality TV Show

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The Wasilla, Alaska, beauty salon credited with designing Sarah Palin's trademark "up-do" hairstyle will be the subject of its own reality television show, "Big Hair Alaska".

TLC, the same cable network that produced and aired "Sarah Palin's Alaska," has announced a two-part series about the Beehive, the salon that counts the former governor and onetime Republican vice presidential nominee as one of its devoted clients.

The identity of the salon was not revealed in a news release sent out last week by TLC. The release simply said the show "goes inside a busy hair salon in Wasilla, Alaska, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create."

But the Beehive, owned by Palin fan Jessica Steele, issued a Facebook post confirming that it was the subject of the TLC show.

"TLC just announced their fall lineup, and we are on it!!!! Our show is called Big Hair Alaska!!!! Omg!!! It's really happening!!!! :)," said the message, posted on Monday.

Steele was not immediately available on Tuesday for comment. However, there is already a new Facebook page called "Big Hair Alaska." (Editing by Steve Gorman and Cynthia Johnston)

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Comments

[CynAnne]

02:22 AM on 08/19/2011

Wow...an avalanche of flop-sweat, on the horizon. "Thar she blow(dries)!"... ;)

[sprootles]

05:49 PM on 08/16/2011

Wow. Riveting TV. *sigh*

Seriously, TLC? Have you run out of ideas?

Spare us.

[MoscowMoo]

08:23 PM on 08/05/2011

And after this, a two-part series on the leading home meth labs in our heroine's hometown.

[lexigram]

05:44 PM on 08/05/2011

Any news on a show about that..umm..massage parlor that Todd likes to visit?

[freili]

04:13 PM on 08/05/2011

Hope they won't quit halve way through a cut........

[Ricardo5323]

12:02 PM on 08/05/2011

It's also called the "up-don't".

[CJWebber]

10:16 AM on 08/05/2011

Sarah Palin's ratty hair these days isn't much of an advertisement for the hair salon.

[MoscowMoo]

08:25 PM on 08/05/2011

Well, yes, but it IS Wasilla after all.

[Havnagudtim]

08:34 PM on 08/17/2011

I thought perhaps Piper has been doing the has-been's hair lately. Chic, I think not.

[lvdragonlady]

12:46 AM on 08/05/2011

Anyone else tired of 'reality' shows?

[rda1911a1]

10:19 PM on 08/04/2011

Why not do a show featuring rachel maddows barber?

[luvapetadopt]

11:30 AM on 08/05/2011

That is a great idea! I think you should pitch it to TLC!

[TheBestPatriot]

05:35 PM on 08/04/2011

I just saw Sarah's hair yesterday and it looked rediculous.

Her hair salon shoud be featured on The First 48.

[cmc1970]

04:31 PM on 08/04/2011

In other news...person with pulse gets own reality show!!!

[An Independent Woman]

10:48 AM on 08/04/2011

TLC is ready to announce that it's featuring ME in a reality show. It's going to be called "Me and my Kitty". It's going to be all about me and my kitty!

[luvapetadopt]

11:30 AM on 08/05/2011

As long as your kitty is running for office, I will watch!

[Havnagudtim]

08:35 PM on 08/17/2011

I'm so jealous! I want a show about me and my kitty and my puppy! Also too!!!

[atrax70]

10:06 AM on 08/04/2011

Arn't all reallity shows sort of fake and staged like Sarah Palin's political career?

[dporterdvd]

01:22 AM on 08/04/2011

On the first episode, Michele Bachmann stops by to get a $400 haircut.

Then Sarah Palin shows up and upstages Michele by having real bees fly out of her bee-hive hairdo.

[henrypapillon]

12:07 AM on 08/05/2011

Then Michele Bachmann has a flashback to her karate days and gets dangerous and kicks the shop to splinters.

[MoscowMoo]

08:27 PM on 08/05/2011

And then Michele's husband shows up to "cure" all of the gay hairdressers by praying over them.

[rdk70816]

10:04 PM on 08/03/2011

Will Sarah be making a guest appearance? Or will she star?

[abhorson]

12:32 AM on 08/04/2011

she's busy pissin' off her GOP colleagues