Holly Willoughby and Davina McCall were among the stars stepping out to raise money for charity in London.

The This Morning and My Mum, Your Dad presenters joined famous faces including Rio Ferdinand, Matt Smith, Sienna Miller and Jenna Coleman commemorating those who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks by collecting for different charities on Monday, 11 September.

Holly, who recently missed out on an NTA award for her daytime TV show, helped to take phone calls at the BGC Charity Day in Canary Wharf. She was supporting children’s charity Together For Short Lives.

The BGC Group event commemorates the 658 friends and colleagues and 61 Euro Brokers employees, who lost their lives in 2001. On Charity Day, 100 percent of BGC Group's global revenues are donated to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund and dozens of many other charities around the world.

Meanwhile former England footballer Rio Ferdinand spoke out about the importance of supporting a charity that saves and changes the lives of women and girls, following the birth of his baby daughter two months ago.

Rio said: “I’ve got an eight week old baby, little girl, a wife, different members of our family are women as well so it’s definitely something that is close to my heart in that sense."

In July, his wife Kate announced they had named their first daughter together Shae, after naming their first son Cree in 2020.

The former footballer, who has three more children including daughter Tia from his previous marriage to Rebecca who died in 2015 after being diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time, said you have to “tip your hat” to BGC Group for “giving up a day of trading to generate a lot of money for the charities involved”.

Other celebrities attending the event included actors Sienna Miller and Damian Lewis, alongside TV presenters Ben Shephard, Laura Whitmore and Kirsty Gallacher. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan described it as a “sombre but inspiring day”.

Good Morning Britain presenter Ben also attended to support Haven House, describing it as a “magical environment” very close to where he grew up.

He said: “I’ve been involved with them for decades now, a really, really long time and it’s just been wonderful to watch them flourish and it’s been really tough going through Covid.

“It’s really tough for charities anyway, but to see how hard they fought because they understood what an important resource it is for the community and for those families.”

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