Tyson, start your pigeons

Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport — pigeon racing.

The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors.

The show is currently titled “Taking on Tyson” and promises to bring audiences inside this “intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world.”

Charles gets buffaloed

Prince Charles visited a primeval forest in eastern Poland, where he saw bison on Tuesday and met with local environmentalists and children. But his wife, Camilla, canceled plans to make the trip with him due to back pain.

Clarence House said that Camilla pinched a nerve in her back and canceled plans to travel with her husband by helicopter and over bumpy roads from Warsaw to eastern Poland, where the prince visited a bison reserve in a primeval forest.

Oprah defamation suit

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls’ school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a U.S. judge ruled.

The case is now set for trial on March 29 in Philadelphia.

Judge Eduardo Robreno refused to dismiss the suit in a decision Monday, ruling that former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane has enough evidence to pursue her defamation claims against the media mogul. Winfrey made the remarks in 2007 after the complaints surfaced at the $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, near Johannesburg.

The birthday bunch

Renee Taylor (“The Nanny”) is 77. Phyllis Newman is 77. Ursula Andress is 74. Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters is 64. Glenn Close is 63. Bruce Willis is 55.