Brooke Burke from “Dancing With the Stars” Lights Up LEGOLAND® California's Holly Jolly Holidays!

Actress and her family are special guests
at annual tree lighting ceremony

Brooke Burke from the number one rated TV show “Dancing with the Stars” is coming to Carlsbad to help light the world’s largest LEGO® Christmas tree at LEGOLAND® California’s eighth annual Tree Lighting Ceremony honoring Operation Smile, an international children’s medical charity whose network of global volunteers is dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children and young adults.

Burke is a successful host, actress and entrepreneur.  She can currently be seen co-hosting ABC’s hit competition show, “Dancing With The Stars,” with Tom Bergeron, having earned the coveted mirror ball trophy as season seven’s champion with her professional dance partner, Derek Hough.  The mother of four (all between the ages of 2 and 10) is Co-CEO of the popular website ModernMom.com, President of BabooshBaby.com and she will add author to her resume when Penguin Books publishes her first book, “The Naked Mom,” in February 2011.

After the 30-foot-tall LEGO tree is lit, fireworks light up the sky and snow showers Park guests from above kicking off LEGOLAND California’s month-long Holly Jolly Holidays presented by Western Dental.