Star of TV’s Hunted and Celebrity Hunted revealed as Ambassador for Walking Home For Christmas 2025

We are utterly delighted to announce that Nichola Tidd, military veteran and star of Chanel 4’s BAFTA award-winning programmes Hunted and Celebrity Hunted, has joined us as Ambassador for this year’s Walking Home For Christmas and Long Way Home.

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.

On her decision to become a WHFC 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.

“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 Walking With The Wounded stands for.”

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).