Shelley appeared on the cover and pages
of the Spanish-language fanzine
Coqueta (Flirt), August 1979
In late-May of 1979, the phenomenal-hit TV series Charlie's Angels had finally found a new Angel to fill-in the slot left by original Angel Kate Jackson. Revlon's Supermodel, THE Charlie Girl Shelley Hack won the coveted role of Angel Tiffany Welles; and she was going to be introduced on the 4th season of the series. Charlie's newest heavenly recruit came with the approval of not just executive producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg but also of incumbent Angels Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd. "We hired her 40 percent from the screen test and 60 percent from the personality test," Spelling told TV Guide, "We decided she was a nice person with sparkle and intelligence." Cheryl Ladd said, "Shelley seemed like a doll and we were going to have a lot of fun working together." Jaclyn Smith said, "She was sort of like the debutante."
Shelley appeared on the cover and pages
of the Spanish-language fanzine
Coqueta (Flirt) in August of 1979, in a writeup entitled
"Shelley: From Charlie's Model (The Perfume)
To Charlie's Angel (The Policewoman)"
The news of Shelley's casting quickly spread around the world and writeups about her were translated in many languages. She became Hollywood's newest Superstar even before she filmed one frame for the hit TV series; and she was written about in Latin America, Europe, Asia and all over. Images of her appeared everywhere and everyone was excited to see THE Charlie Girl as Charlie's newest Angel. And the paparazzi relentlessly pursued her after the announcement of her Angel-dom. "I was totally unprepared for the press 'bonanza' which followed," she said on Jane Pauley's show Time and Again in 2000. "I was surprised by the amount of attention," she said. "I had press people crawling in my window," she told E! in 2002.
