Matthew

I agree with the others that from the photos you have posted your new look could definitely just be a change of style - it looks like you just changed your parting and put a bit of mousse in your hair. I think your mates are channeling your own nervousness about your new hair.

Having said that, I don't follow your remark that you are in the entertainment industry and therefore you can't afford to be found out. It seems to me that is the one career where you can afford to be found out and no one thinks any the less of you. People accept that if you are in entertainment you have to look good, and you have a certain licence to fake it which is not given to the rest of us mere mortals. No one is dissing Ben Affleck or Brendan Fraser for the fact that (as is pretty much common knowledge) they wear hairpieces.

You have the option of saying to people, I felt my thinning hair was detracting from my entertainment career, and so I have had a bit artificially added. I think people would take that at face value.

Just a thought.

Ted