After Dave Franco Accepted His 'Sexiest Cat Dad' Title Live on Air, Cat Lovers MGK and Bobby Flay Had 'Something to Say' About His Win Brendan LeOctober 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM 0 Machine Gun Kelly/Instagram; Courtesy Dave Franco; Bobby Flay/TikTok MGK, Dave Franco and Bobby Flay with their cats Dave Fra...
- - After Dave Franco Accepted His 'Sexiest Cat Dad' Title Live on Air, Cat Lovers MGK and Bobby Flay Had 'Something to Say' About His Win
Brendan LeOctober 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Dave Franco won PEOPLE's Sexiest Cat Dad in our 2025 Sexiest Man Alive Readers' Choice Poll
After 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' announced the 'Regretting You' actor's victory, MGK and Bobby Flay had a few words to say in the Instagram comments
Franco shares cats Max and Otis with his wife of eight years Alison Brie
There's a catfight in the comments after the reveal of PEOPLE's Sexiest Cat Dad.
During an Oct. 23 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the host, 51, informed guest Dave Franco that he won PEOPLE's Sexiest Cat Dad in our 2025 Sexiest Man Alive Readers' Choice Poll. After the Regretting You star, 40, shared that his cats Max and Otis are "thriving," Fallon announced his victory in his category over fellow feline lovers Kumail Nanjiani, Mark Ruffalo and Myles Turner.
"I feel like I have been silently campaigning for this my whole life," Franco began his acceptance speech. "I never realized how rare it was for a man to be obsessed with his cats until every journalist brought it up in every interview I've ever done."
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Dave Franco on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'
He then thanked his cats, current and past: "I of course have to thank Max and Otis. You guys — as if they're watching — make me laugh more than anyone on Earth. I gotta give a shout-out to my old cats, Harry and Arturo."
The band started to play Franco off, as he protested, "This is my moment!"
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After seeing the Instagram post of the Tonight Show clip, some notable names felt like it should've been their moment instead. MGK commented, "whoa i love you dave but me and my 3 cats have something to say about this…"
Bobby Flay, whose Orange Maine Coon Nacho was an Internet personality and who currently is a pet parent to Stella and Canelo, despaired at the news in three words: "I'm literally devastated." (Canelo himself commented, "Me too.")
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MGK and his cat
Franco has previously said his love of cats seeped into other aspects of his life, such as his romantic pursuits. Speaking to PEOPLE while promoting his movie Together with wife Alison Brie, he called himself "the single guy with two 18-lb. cats."
"As you can imagine, that kind of weeds out the dating pool a bit. Not a lot of girls are into that," he explained. Brie, 42, however, "fully embraced" his cat dad duties.
She recalled the early days in their relationship, when Franco would spend the night and have to "get up at like 7 in the morning to go home and feed the cats."
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Eventually, Franco asked if he could move his pets into Brie's place — and now, they're one purr-fect family of four.
Tune in Oct. 27 for the next reveal of the results from the Readers' Choice Poll's remaining categories, and come back Nov. 3 to find out who 2025's Sexiest Man Alive will be!
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