a closeup of Shelley from the cover
of TV Guide Canadian edition, March 1980
Shelley joined the cast of Charlie's Angels during its fourth season from 1979 to 1980. And although she was aware of the show's immense popularity, she was also aware of the kind of show it was. "Of course it's fluff," she admitted, "but high-grade fluff. You don't compare Agatha Christie to Tolstoy." She knew Charlie's Angels was the best there was in its category. She knew the women who were cast as leads in the show lived in a fishbowl. She knew she had to ready herself for the kind of lifestyle change joining the show would bring. But she wasn't aware of how much change that would be. "I was totally unprepared for the press "bonanza" that followed," she said in 2000. As THE Charlie Girl, she told one reporter in 1979, "I had done a lot of press before. There was so much to do then, so you just deal with it." But the Supermodel wasn't aware that she was entering a totally different space, the rock star space. "I was surprised by the amount of attention," she said."I had press people crawling in my windows," she told E! in 2002.
Shelley on the cover
of TV Guide Canadian edition, March 1980
of TV Guide Canadian edition, March 1980
