 Shelton has sung with the BBC Big Band and BBC Concert Orchestra for the Moon Walk Breast Cancer Charity in London's Hyde Park and for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and 'Tickled Pink'.He also organised a big-band fundraiser event for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, r. His connection to MND is through his step-mother, who was living with the condition until 2006.The son of a 

builders merchant from Wolverhampton, Shelton trained in international hotel management and before becoming an actor, Shelton eventually became commercial director of sales at InterContinental Hotels.