A video of a photo op with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Hawaii is going viral.

Clinton had just finished shaking hands with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang and was posing for photographers at sunset Saturday in Waikiki when a buff, shirtless torchbearer wearing a blue malo ran behind her during the nightly torch-lighting ceremony at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

Photographers began chuckling when they noticed the man. Clinton turned around just in time to see him race by.

She clasped her hands together and burst out laughing.

"That was great, I hope you all captured that," an astonished Clinton told photographers.

The secretary of state put her hand on Tsang’s shoulder and said, "People will wonder what the chief executive is doing."

Clinton was in Hawaii for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference.

"It was just my usual routine and I just ran through, not paying attention to the group," said the torchbearer, Chester Centino, 24, a Tihati Productions dancer and Farrington High School graduate who also performs at the hotel’s luau.

Centino said he lights the torches every night at the hotel.

Centino said Wednesday he didn’t know he ran behind the secretary of state.

"My initial reaction when I saw the video was, ‘Wow, I did just breeze past her security.’"

The video, titled Hillary Clinton’s Hawaiian Surprise, was posted on the State Department’s East Asia and Pacific media hub YouTube channel and had been viewed more than 523,000 times as of 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Hilton spokeswoman Dara Young said 90 torches are lit every night on the Hawaiian Village property.

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