Shelly Horton

TV Journalist, MC and Women's Health Advocate

Shelly Horton is the personification of confidence.

She’s a TV journalist, sought after MC, Women's Health Advocate and runs her own company ShellShocked Media where she teaches media and presentation training. She runs The Confidence Course where she helps people find their inner Beyoncé.

For nearly eight years, Shelly has appeared weekly on Channel Nine delivering opinion segments.

She’s the lifestyle presenter for 9Honey, the host of 9Honey’s Talking Honey, He Said/She Said with Ben Fordham and was the host of all three seasons of Married At First Sight’s spin off show Talking Married.

She has been a long time advocate for women's health including publicly speaking up to destigmatise topics such as a woman's choice to be childfree, PCOS, dense breasts, depression and perimenopause and menopause. She has co-created online courses about confidence, health advocacy and menopause in the workplace.

She’s an ambassador for the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Too Good, Pink Hope and a member of the International Menopause Society.

Her 30 year career highlights outside of Nine include 11 years reporting for the ABC, eight years as a presenter on Channel Seven, six years as a journalist at Fairfax and five years as the South Pacific correspondent for Entertainment Tonight USA.