Just in case you were still wondering why people in Wasilla do not reveal what they know about Sarah Palin to reporters.

Because some times if they just keep their mouths shut, they can score a reality show simply for having touched Sarah Palin's mighty mane of hair.

The TV network TLC, home to such popular shows as Little People, Big World, Say Yes To The Dress and Cake Boss, announced today that it’s adding the show Big Hair Alaska to its fall lineup. 

The show offers a look behind the scenes at the Beehive Beauty Shop, the bright pink beauty salon that gained national fame for crafting former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s signature coiffure. 

The show's time slot has not yet been announced.

You see the Palins don't always have to resort to threats or intimidation to keep people quiet about them, because in fact they have helped Wasilla economically and some really do appreciate that they put their little town on the map.  And yes, there are those who can even get a little fame of their own so long as they don't rock the boat.

I guess Jessica Steele learned to keep her mouth shut after she accidentally spilled the beans about Palin's thinning hair to the New York Times:

Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.

“Honestly, I think all of it just broke her heart,” Ms. Steele said in an interview at her beauty parlor in Wasilla, the Beehive.

Which inspired Ms. Steele to quickly launch into damage control:

“It wasn’t like I did an intervention,’’ Jessica Steele said in a phone interview from her Wasilla, Alaska, beauty parlor, the Beehive.

In fact, despite the juicy hair-loss tidbit that Palin-aholics gobbled up in a New York Times story (“The Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation,’’ July 12), Steele insisted that Palin’s hair hadn’t thinned so much as it had gone blah.

“I think the combination of traveling and just being down there in the lower 48’’ took its toll, Steele said in what was either a brilliant bit of spin, the simple truth, or an attempt to save the good stuff for a cut-and-tell memoir. “We needed to get her back to shiny.’’

She gave Palin a much-needed trim, she said, and “kicked up’’ Palin’s shampoo and conditioner a notch, to the high-end Pureology NanoWorks line. She also gave Palin a chichi leave-in treatment, Altieri Brothers Tuscan Oil.

Does anybody think that Jessica would be getting this great reality show gig, if she had NOT quickly walked back her statement?  Nope me either!

And it is too bad she did not stick to her guns, because it appears to me that Palin's hair is WAY past the "kicked up Palin's shampoo" stage these days.  Which leads me to believe that Ms. Steele was right on the money back in 2009!