As Channel 4’s Hunted 2025 came to a dramatic climax this week, Nichola Tidd, military veteran and star of previous series of Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning programmes Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, has joined leading veteran’s charity Walking With The Wounded (WWTW) as Ambassador for their Walking Home For Christmas and Long Way Home challenges.
On her decision to become a Walking Home For Christmas Ambassador, Nichola said:
“I know from my own experience how crucial support is to veterans struggling to return to everyday life. Some, like myself, carry physical or mental scars and without help sadly many may not recover. What WWTW does is so important and yet, as a charity, you have to do your own fundraising just to be able to continue to offer your invaluable services.”
Nichola Tidd
During her decade-long military career, Nichola served in the Royal Navy before secondment to Army Intelligence, where she saw two operational tours, in Afghanistan and Iraq.
No stranger to mental health struggles herself, Nichola, has bravely spoken out about the mental health challenges that female veterans can face, particularly within a culture that can discourage vulnerability. Her own PTSD symptoms began to emerge while she was still serving and continued to develop once she had left the military in 2015, and it took many years for her to recover.
“I wanted to give something back and I’m delighted that myself and my daughter, Elodie, can be a part of Walking Home For Christmas this year, and also Long Way Home, which so gets to the heart of what WWTW stands for.”
Nichola Tidd
As someone who has faced the harsh realities of PTSD, Nichola’s mission is to continue the conversation about mental health among female veterans. Committed to supporting fellow veterans, she now leads a veteran-to-veteran mentorship programme through i2i and offers expert representation under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS).
