Sienna Miller, Anthony Joshua and Damian Lewis were among the stars at the annual BGC Group Charity Day in London.

The event is held every year to commemorate the hundreds of BGC staff who were killed in the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.

Since its inception, the charity day has raised around £150million, with the global financial services company donating 100 per cent of its revenues from the day’s trading to good causes. 

Every year, actors, sports stars and celebrities flock to the BGC trading floor in Canary Wharf to take part.

Also at yesterday’s event in London were Lord Botham, Rio Ferdinand, Clare Balding and Davina McCall, while former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and ex-tennis player Andy Roddick took part in New York.

BGC chief operating officer Sean Windeatt said the charity day was launched to ‘create something amazing out of the atrocities’ of 2001.

Anthony Joshua would love to see Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo go head-to-head in a Misfits boxing match – and while declaring it to be a close contest, he’s backed the Portuguese star to emerge victorious.

The British heavyweight boxer, 33, is currently enjoying some time off after beating Robert Helenius via a seventh-round KO at the 02 Arena in London last month.

And the big football fan has said that he would love to see two icons of the team sport go head-to-head to continue their personal rivalry in the fighting arena.  

In an interview posted on YouTube, Joshua was asked to name two non-boxers he’d love to see fight based on personalities alone, and responded with ‘Ronaldo versus Messi’, taking one of modern football’s fiercest rivalries into a new battleground. 

When asked who wins, Joshua said ‘Ronaldo’, before adding: ‘I love Messi and Ronaldo. Messi’s got that vision though. I can imagine him bobbing and weaving, angles, but yeah, it’d be tough. They’re both as good as each other.’

Joshua refused to name a non-boxer that he would like to meet in the ring in a cross-over fight, saying ‘I got no beef with no one’.

When faced with the idea of facing the Portuguese icon was put to him, Joshua said: ‘Nah, I respect Ronaldo.’ 

The suggestion of a hypothetical fight between two other football rivals was floated as well – Romelu Lukaku versus Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

In response to that, Joshua said: ‘Yeah, they don’t like each other anyway, do they? That would be a bad boy fight too, to be fair.’

Lukaku has made a name for himself with Serie A side Inter Milan, and has joined Roma on loan from Chelsea for this season, while Ibrahimovic retired from football at the end of last season after a long career which saw him finish with AC Milan.  

Joshua, a two-time world champion, is expected to face Deontay Wilder next in a mega-money bout in Saudi Arabia before the end of 2023.

Dillian Whyte has hit back at Eddie Hearn‘s claims that he ‘priced himself out’ of a rematch with Anthony Joshua. 

The pair were expected to face each other on August 12 but Hearn affirms that they were unable to come to an agreement on the financial side of the deal.

However, according to Whyte no such negotiations took place.

‘They’re talking rubbish,’ Whyte told The Sun in response to Hearn’s recent comments. ‘I haven’t turned down the fight.

‘All I got, after Eddie talked publicly and often about making me an offer to fight AJ, was a very short email late in the evening on Friday 2 June.

‘I absolutely 100 per cent want to fight AJ and called Eddie to discuss the offer but couldn’t get hold of him. I messaged him too. I didn’t hear back from him so I sent him an email to confirm I wanted the fight.

‘I didn’t turn down the offer or propose a counter-offer. All I did was ask normal questions on his three-line email so-called offer.

‘Even before I emailed, Eddie was already saying publicly that his offer was unacceptable. So, why make it in the first place?’

Joshua is now expected to face a different opponent on the same date while Whyte is left in limbo.

Hearn had promised the ‘Bodysnatcher’ a second fight with Joshua in the spring time after beating Jermaine Franklin.

Yet the Matchroom Boxing chief opted to go with the American instead.

After Joshua beat Franklin on points, the Whyte rematch was spoken about as a possible warm up fight ahead of AJ’s blockbuster showdown with Deontay Wilder in December. 

But it is now looking more likely that he will box European heavyweight champion Agit Kabayel in two months’ time.

Whyte has since come out and declared that he is willing to accept Hearn’s terms but said that he doesn’t think Joshua and co are serious about making the fight.

When asked if he would accept the offer he’s been made during a recent appearance on talkSPORT. Whyte replied: ‘100 per cent, of course I would, I wanna fight AJ and beat him.’