CEDAR FALLS -- Growing up, Terrie Webrand never dreamed of being on TV. The girl from Cedar Falls just wanted to be a star vocalist.

Even though Webrand, who now goes by Jesse Boatright, didn't go looking for video cameras, the Fox Broadcasting Network found her.

At 8 p.m. Wednesday, Boatright and her beauty shop in Austin, Texas, will be featured on the "Simple Life 2: Road Trip." The half-hour show follows celebrities Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie from Florida to California as they stay with host families and work random jobs.

The result is, typically, a disaster.

"The few I've (seen) have been hysterical," said Boatright's mom, Dee Voorhees of Cedar Falls. She tuned into the "Simple Life" to see what her daughter was getting into.

Viewers can expect to laugh when the blonde duo shows up at Lonny's Beauty Supply and Salon, Voorhees said. This episode includes the novice beauticians waxing a man's back.

"My part mainly was just scolding them," Boatright said. "It's all ad-libbed. Every single bit of it."

"I was so fearful they'd hand me a script," added the 1977 Northern University High School graduate.

And that's about all Boatright can reveal -- except that a crew of 12 spent two days rearranging her shop.

"I had no idea it took that many people for a TV show," Boatright said. "The producer did tell me that reality shows are Hollywood's favorite shows to make, because they are inexpensive."

Fox officials heard about Lonny's, an original Austin retail salon from a Texas Film Association, Boatright said.

"We do a lot of Texas big hair," Boatright said.

But when producers eventually gave her thumbs up early this year, she had to keep it to herself.

For months, "We couldn't tell anybody. It was killing us."

In the meantime, she had to find clients to participate. For instance, the script called for a 50-year-old woman willing to get a Hilton-Richie complete makeover, no questions asked.

Keeping the gig undercover didn't get easier when Hilton and Richie showed up in April.

"Their pink pickup sat outside the salon all day," Boatright said. "Everyone that walked into my business this day had to sign a waiver."

Three news stations had to be "chased" off private property.

On camera, Hilton and Richie were their usual crass and incompetent selves. Off camera, the hotel heiress and pop star's daughter impressed this Iowa native, a wife and mother of two.

"They were all very nice, very polite," Boatright said. Her daughter helped Hilton with a scrapbook.

"They posed for whatever pictures we wanted them to pose for," Boatright said.

She was paid $1,000 for her "trouble," not to mention free publicity and was compensated for beauty products destroyed in the process.

Boatright, who has performed with members of the Willie Nelson band and the George Strait band and sings swing with the Sentimental Journey Orchestra, was at ease when the cameras were rolling. Watching how 13 hours of straight filming translates into 22 minutes of programming may be a different story.

"She's very anxious to view the finished product, good or bad," her sister, Pam Webrand Houston of California wrote to the Courier.

Boatright, who turns 45 Wednesday, is brave enough to watch the "Simple Life " with friends at an eating establishment with no less than seven big-screen TVs.

"We could turn out looking like country, redneck hicks," she said. "But any publicity is good publicity."