My Chemical Romance Guitarist Voted Sexiest Vegetarian

06/23/08 6:30pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Those who have a thing for My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way may be surprised to know that the band's guitarist, Frank Iero, has won Peta2's Sexiest Vegetarian Award.

Iero was voted the hottest male veggie by more than 45,000 voters in this year's poll. The guitarist narrowly beat Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta and Jared Leto.

On the female side, actress Alyssa Milano was voted the hottest female vegetarian. She edged out 2006 winner Natalie Portman, Fiona Apple and Erykah Badu.

A complete list of the nominees is available on the Peta2 website, but here are some of the musicians who were up for Peta2's 2008 World's Sexiest Vegetarian Award:

Chris Adler (Lamb Of God)
Kianna Alarid (Tilly And The Wall)
Andre 3000 (OutKast)
Fiona Apple
Mira Aroyo (Ladytron)
Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls)
Erykah Badu
Kurt Ballou (Converge)
Nick Baines (Kaiser Chiefs)
Jacob Bannon (Converge)
Brandon Barnes (Rise Against)
Thomas Barnett (Strike Anywhere)
Brian Bell (Weezer)
Adele Bethel (Sons And Daughters)
Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta)
Black Thought (The Roots)
Zach Blair (Rise Against)
Neil Boshart (Silverstein)
Josh Bradford (Silverstein)
Kenny Bridges (Moneen)
Ben Bridwell (Band Of Horses)
Dan Briggs (Between The Buried And Me)
Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis/Freya/Path Of Resistance)
Bulldog (Earth Crisis/Freya/Path Of Resistance)
Tahita Bulmer (New Young Pony Club)
Hunter Burgan (A.F.I.)
Bernard Butler
John Campbell (Lamb Of God)
Gareth Campesinos! (Los Campesinos!)
Adam Carson (A.F.I.)
Chris #2 (Anti-Flag)
Clouddead
Chris Conley (Saves The Day)
Kathy Coppola (Circle Takes The Square)
David "Jaff" Craig (The Futureheads)
Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis/Path Of Resistance)
Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
Mike D’Antonio (Killswitch Engage)
Carl Dalemo (Razorlight)
John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats)
Stephen Dewaele (Soulwax)
Alan Donohoe (The Rakes)
Erick Edwards (Earth Crisis/Freya/Path Of Resistance)
Dajon Everett (Gomez)
Mathias Farm (Millencolin)
Johanna Fateman (Le Tigre)
John Feldmann (Goldfinger)
FeyAdam Fisher (Fear Before The March Of Flames)
Gordy Forman (Frenzal Rhomb)
Sage Francis
Michael Franti
Matthew Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces)
Chris Geddes (Belle And Sebastian)
Alison Goldfrapp
Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy)
Derek Grant (Alkaline Trio)
Chris Gray (The Black Maria)
Derrick Green (Sepultura)
Alex Greenwald (Phantom Planet)
Barney Greenway (Napalm Death)
David Guillas (Propagandhi)
GZA
Billy Hamilton (Silverstein)
Chris Hannah (Propagandhi)
Emmylou Harris
Shawn Harris (The Matches)
Davey Havok (A.F.I.)
Missy Higgins
Jamie Hince (The Kills)
Owen Holmes (Black Kids)
Jamie Hornsmith (The Rakes)
Luke Hoskin (Protest The Hero)
Jeph Howard (The Used)
Richard Hughes (Keane)
Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy)
Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance)
Natalie Imbruglia
India.Arie
Joan Jett
Steve Jocz (Sum 41)
Daniel Johns (Silverchair)
Sarah Jones (New Young Pony Club)
Cody Josephson (1997)
Ben Kenney (Incubus)
Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Forrest Kline (Hellogoodbye)
Paul Koehler (Silverstein)
Todd Kowalski (Propagandhi)
KRS-One
Fredrik Larzon (Millencolin)
Ben Lee
Ted Leo
Jared Leto
Leona Lewis
Russell Lissack (Bloc Party)
Connor Lovat-Fraser (Boys Night Out)
Dennis Lyxzen (The (International) Noise Conspiracy)
M-1 (Dead Prez)
Ian MacKaye (Fugazi)
Mickey Madden (Maroon 5)
Michael Madruga (Fear Before The March Of Flames)
Iain Mahanty (Kids In Glass Houses)
Armand Majidi (Sick Of It All)
David Marion (Fear Before The March Of Flames)
Fran Mark (From Autumn To Ashes)
Damian Marley
Alida Marroni (1997)
Masta Killa (The Wu-Tang Clan)
Billy Martin (Good Charlotte)
Chris Martin (Coldplay)
Doug Martsch (Built To Spill)
Paul Mazurkiewicz (Cannibal Corpse)
Paul McCartney
Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall (Frenzal Rhomb)
Adam McGrath (Cave In)
Tim McIlrath (Rise Against)
Chris McLane (Stretch Arm Strong)
Nellie McKay
Dennis Merrick (Earth Crisis/Path Of Resistance/Freya)
Travis Miguel (Atreyu)
Tim Millar (Protest The Hero)
Ross Millard (The Futureheads)
Arif Mirabdolbaghi (Protest The Hero)
Moby
Morrissey
Mos Def
Alison "VV" Mosshart (The Kills)
Stuart Murdoch (Belle And Sebastian)
Keith Murray (We Are Scientists)
Katie Nicholls (Forward, Russia!)
Erik Ohlsson (Millencolin)
Ian Parton (The Go! Team)
Justin Pearson (The Locust)
Caleb Pepp (1997)
Prince
Joe Principe (Rise Against)
Princess Superstar
Prodigy (Mobb Deep)
Jade Puget (AFI/Blaqk Audio)
Q-Tip
Cove Reber (Saosin)
Pierre De Reeder (Rilo Kiley)
Geoff Rickly (Thursday)
Simon Rix (Kaiser Chiefs)
Rob Zombie
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta)
Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried And Me)
Adam Russell (Story Of The Year)
RZA
Jordy Samolesky (Propagandhi)
Justin Sane (Anti-Flag)
Gabe Saporta (Cobra Starship)
Heath Saraceno (Senses Fail)
Nikola Sarcevic (Millencolin)
David Sease (Stretch Arm Strong)
Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio)
Drew Speziale (Circle Takes The Square)
Stic.man (Dead Prez)
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.)
Joss Stone
Ember Swift
Serj Tankian (System Of A Down)
Pat Thetic (Anti-Flag)
Kevin Thomas (1997)
Shane Told (Silverstein)
Shania Twain
Carrie Underwood
Ville Valo (HIM)
Paul Waggoner (Between The Buried And Me)
Rody Walker (Protest The Hero)
Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie)
Dustie Waring (Between The Buried And Me)
Jason Whalley (Frenzal Rhomb)
Jamie Williams (Tilly And The Wall)
Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Dan Yemin (Paint It Black/Lifetime)
Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)