She is unable to hold on to her top as she takes a dive in the Pacific Ocean

Performs a striptease to the camera to amusement of show's presenters

Braving the cold currents of the Pacific Ocean led to Chilean reporter Bernardita Middleton losing her bikini on live TV after stripping down when dared by the presenters in the studio.

The notoriously nippy waters in the coastal town of Reñaca, Chile, in the northern Valparaiso region, knocked off her bikini after she failed to properly attach the straps before taking a dive under a wave.

The popular presenter had previously attracted attention when she asked Prince Harry to marry her during his tour of the country in 2014, attempting to convince him of the proposal because her surname is Middleton.

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Reporting from the beach for the popular Chilean morning show ‘Good Morning Everyone’, Bernardita was dared to enter the water by the presenters.

Happily she treated the viewers to a striptease, taking off her blue dress revealing a turquoise bikini.

‘In truth I wasn’t going to go in the water, the bandeau bikini was a recent present, but I didn’t attach the straps to keep it in place because I had them on my top,’ she explained in an interview after the broadcast.

Reporting from the beach for the popular Chilean morning show ‘Good Morning Everyone’, Bernardita is dared to enter the water by the presenters

Happily she treats the viewers to a striptease taking off her blue dress revealing a turquoise bikini

‘Then they asked me to jump in the water, so I went for it.’

The reporter successfully kept her costume together after the first plunge, celebrating to the camera to the appreciation of the presenters.

But as Bernardita went in for a second dive, a wave pulled her bikini down to her waist. She quickly tried to readjust it and the show displays a slow motion replay of her attempt.

‘In truth I wasn’t going to go in the water, the bandeau bikini was a recent present, but I didn’t attach the straps to keep it in place because I had them on my top,’ she explains in an interview after the broadcast

A local to the region who knows the waters like the back of her hand, Bernadita later laughed off the incident.

‘In Renaca the waves are very mischievous and it always happens. You just have to turn around pull up your bikini top and get on with it.’

She said that although some surfers further out to sea caught the view, ‘the camera didn’t see anything…and anyway what are they going to see if I don’t have anything there to show!'

The reporter successfully keeps her costume together after the first plunge, celebrating to the camera to the appreciation of the presenters

As Bernardita goes in for a dive a wave pulls her bikini down to her waist. She quickly tries to readjust it and the show displays a slow motion replay of her attempt

She runs back to the camera to continue her report and describe how it happened

‘It was a fun situation’, she added.

Bernardita also raised eyebrows when she proposed to Prince Harry when he arrived at the Plaza de la Ciudadani – the People’s Square – in Santiago in 2014.

Wearing a tiara, Bernardita called to him during his three day tour, ‘I’m a Middleton my name is Middleton, like Princess Kate, I be your next wife Harry.’

While the prince was amused by the suggestion he quickly moved on.

Bernardita also raised eyebrows when she proposed to Prince Harry when he arrived at the Plaza de la Ciudadani – the People’s Square – in Santiago in 2014

Wearing a tiara, Bernardita called to him during his three day tour, ‘I’m a Middleton my name is Middleton, like Princess Kate, I be your next wife Harry’