"It's like Christmas every morning," Shelley said, "I smile a lot." That's what Shelley said when she received news that she was Charlie's newest Angel in late-May of 1979. After Kate Jackson left the series at the end of its 3rd season, Charlie's Angels executive producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg sifted through around 300 applicants and finally chose Shelley. They were looking for a girl with "the right bubble and intelligence." The new Angel, Tiffany Welles, was written as a Smith College graduate, a girl from the East who was not a voluptuous sexpot... and Shelley fit the bill perfectly. She's a Smith College graduate (with a degree in history), she was born in New York and she grew up in Connecticut, and she had that classic model shape and beauty. And not only did she photograph so well with her new co-Angels Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd, she was also warmly welcomed by both.
