Prior to joining the police, Wilding served in the British Army and worked as a security guard at Harrods department store in London.

In January 2021, it was announced by Chief Superintendent Martin Fry that Wilding had joined British Transport Police as a detective.

[4] After taking a period of unpaid leave, Wilding resigned from the police force in February 2008 to concentrate on TV work.

[6] In August 2008, he hosted the twenty-episode fly-on-the-wall series following the lives of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Helicopter Heroes on BBC One.

[10] Wilding was made fourth favourite by bookmakers behind former boxer Joe Calzaghe and actor Ricky Whittle,[11] however he became the third celebrity to be eliminated on the show after failing to be saved in the dance-off, on 3 October 2009.

In September 2010, Wilding went to the front line of British Military operations in Afghanistan filming a series for BBC called Remembrance Week.

[19] Wilding revealed on Morning Live that he is dyslexic, dyspraxic and also had been diagnosed by Simon Baron-Cohen as autistic in a film broadcast on the subject.