Shelley was hounded by the paparazzi in 1979 after it was announced that she was cast in Charlie's Angels. She became the newest Angel in 1979, and she jumped from being THE Charlie Girl to becoming Charlie's latest Superstar cherub. As it was for all the Angels before her, she received a lot of attention from both the media and from fans. Her casting was even mentioned in the evening news - it was a huge deal. "I couldn't believe it. What was I doing in the evening news," she exclaimed at the time. When she arrived in St. Thomas at the Caribbean, where her first Charlie's Angels episode was going to be shot, she was greeted by the paparazzi. "When I got off the plane, there were maybe eight million paparazzi. I looked around for Sophia Loren. It was for me. I couldn't believe it," Shelley was astonished by the amount of attention her Angel casting was getting. "I had press people crawling in my windows," she told E!in 2002.
