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Rav Wilding is an English television presenter, whose former professions include security guard at Harrods, soldier, police officer and from June 2004 to December 2011 was a presenter on Crimewatch.
Born in Canterbury, Kent, Wilding is the second of five children born to a Mauritian father and an English mother who were both nurses. He attended Fulston Manor School in Sittingbourne, Kent.
After secondary school he took an apprenticeship in construction before joining the British Army at seventeen. Due to his stature and physical fitness he was selected to undertake parachute training, but a broken leg sustained on a training run cut short a career in the Parachute Regiment. After four 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, Wilding started working at Harrods in Knightsbridge as part of the security team. After approximately nine months at Harrods, Wilding's application to join the Metropolitan Police Service was accepted and he started training school. Wilding joined the Service at the start of 2000 and was posted to Peckham in South London. While based at Peckham in Southwark, he was involved in the high profile police investigation surrounding the death of Damilola Taylor. Wilding was part of a specialist unit specifically created in the aftermath of the murder where he worked on the tough North Peckham Estate where Taylor was killed.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Triumph Daytona 675 ,Test Ride/ Review by Rav Wilding.
Strictly Come Dancing 2009 - S7 - Week 1 - Show 2 - Rav Wilding - Rumba
Strictly Come Dancing 2009 - Series 7 Week 3 - Rav Wilding's Quickstep - BBC One
Rav Wilding's Top to Toe Tips
Rav Wilding: 'Remembrance Week" 09.11.10
Strictly Come Dancing - S7 - Week 1 - Show 1 - Rav Wilding - Tango
HomeSafe Improvements on BBC Crime Scene Rescue with Rav Wilding - Manchester, UK
Rav Wilding takes on Ron Haslam’s Race School | Motorcyclenews.com
Aisleyne: I thought Rav Wilding was the man of my dreams!
Rav Wilding Showreel
Big Brother 9: Little Brother - Rav Wilding
Message from Rav Wilding - Neighbourhood Policing Awards 2015
Rav Wilding at Mayfair Security
The Sarah Millican Television Programme Ep 06