Rav Wilding is currently a regular presenter on BBC Crimewatch and has been since May 2004. The programme is fast pace and one of Ravs main roles is to give the live updates as and when they come in via telephone, often with only seconds notice before speaking to camera.

In addition Rav has also appeared in various Magazines, and publications including a full page piece in the July edition of Attitude Magazine

Rav was born 16th October 1977 in Canterbury Kent and is the second of five children. His father is from Mauritius and Mother English, who were both Nurses when they met. After secondary school he took an apprenticeship in construction before joining the Army at 17. Due to his stature and physical fitness he was selected to undertake Parachute training but a broken leg sustained on a training run cut a career in the Airborne unit short and after 4 years he left after medical staff advised him that it would be highly unlikely that his leg would ever be back to full fitness.

On leaving the Army in 1999 Rav started working at Harrods store in Knightsbridge on The security team. Rav says "The work there was so varied one moment you could be taking a cash float to the vault and the next we were escorting Posh Spice when she came in!" After around 9 months at the prestigious London Store Rav's application in to the Metropolitan Police service was accepted and he commenced training school.

Rav Joined the "Met" at the start of 2000 and was posted to Peckham in South London. After two years in Uniform he responded to an advert for people to partake in a Jungle adventure, to live for three moths in an Australian rain forrest for a new TV Programme on Channel 4 called EDEN. After numerous auditions and around 50000 applicants Rav was picked for the programme and flew out to New South Wales. "Eden was great because I lived in a place I may never have been lucky enough to have seen had I not been picked for the show, but it wasn't all roses though.… one time a small spider crawled out of some clothing one of the guys left on the floor. He was scared of spiders so asked me to squash it which I did with a flip flop, I then discovered from one of the Aussie Cameramen that it was a funnel web spider one of the most deadly spiders in the world!" After three months of the Jungle Rav returned to the UK and went back to work in the police but this time in to the CID.

Working within the CID Rav was posted to units focussing on Robbery ,Burglary and Major investigations as well as currently working on a Sapphire unit dealing with Rape and sexual assault allegations. He was quickly selected for Detective training and soon became a "DC". Rav said "Work within the police is great and I would always recommend it to anyone thinking of joining,but it can get very serious just through the nature of the work,so when I saw an avert for a new Crimewatch presenter I jumped at the chance to apply!" Rav had to go through numerous interviews and auditions as well as formal TV presenter training before being offered the part on Crimewatch. " It was great when I got that phone call from the producer offering me the part. Crimewatch is such a good programme, and is something I always watched as a boy growing up. It is so nice to be part of it now"