 Shelley married and had four children, Gavin, Christian, Daniel and Michele, but later divorced.In the 1960s she moved north to Manchester as chief feature writer for the "Daily Mail" and from there joined Granada Television, which gave her scope as a presenter and commentator of the local scene, chat host and debating chair, and she became a personality in her own right, as did other colleagues in those years, such as Tony Wilson.She was a forceful personality, but generally treated her interviewees with sympathy and visibly entered into their enthusiasms and quirks.