A B.C. man has won the right to be the interim Captain Obvious, the aloof Hotels.com spokesman who makes obvious statements.

Terrace resident Ryan Sergerie will temporarily take on the current captain's mantle while that actor is on vacation.

Sergerie will receive a $1,000 dollar gift card, $1,000 dollars in cash, and be flown to Toronto along with two other winning contestants to star in a commercial to promote the hotel accommodation provider's rewards program.

Sergerie says he's been told he resembles the Captain, so when the opportunity to replace the icon through a contest presented itself, he jumped at the chance.

"You know if I was to be at home and act like a child my wife would yell at me, but suddenly I put my acting like a child on the Internet and everybody loves it," said Sergerie.

"It seemed to really take off, I think it's got something like 25,000 views on Facebook. And people really just seem to appreciate, I don't know, the big giant smile on my face."