Sarah Palin's hair salon gets own TV show
(CBS/AP) - The Alaska hair salon made famous for whipping Sarah Palin's locks into an up-do will be the subject of a two-part TLC reality series.
"Big Hair Alaska," which will premiere in September, will feature a "busy hair salon in Wasilla, AK, where the personalities of the owner and her staff are as big as the hairstyles they create," the network wrote in the release.
It will air on the same network that brought forth "Sarah Palin's Alaska," an eight-part docu-series on the former Alaska governor, 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and possible presidential candidate.
TLC spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg declined to identify the salon in "Big Hair Alaska." But a hairdresser in Palin's hometown of Wasilla says the salon to be featured in the show is the Beehive Beauty Shop.
Mariah Hopper, a hairdresser at the Beehive, says she's not authorized to say whether Palin still frequents the salon.
Shop proprietor Jessica Steele, longtime keeper of Palin's hair, has also been retweeting links that confirm the news. And there's already a new Facebook page called "Big Hair Alaska."
Steele could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.