Dickinson to host own show

New York – Like a supermodel superhero, she flies with lightning speed from one reality television show to the next.

Cast off by “America’s Next Top Model,” Janice Dickinson will get her own reality modeling show on the Oxygen network.

Dickinson, who claims she was the first supermodel, was ousted from the UPN show in May. During her four seasons on the show, she was the harshest critic of the model hunt’s judging panel and often quarreled with fellow judges.

She’ll winnow 500 aspiring models down to five as she starts her own Hollywood modeling agency on what is tentatively titled “The Janice Dickinson Project.” Oxygen has ordered 10 episodes, which are expected to begin airing in the spring.

Bird off the hook

Santa Barbara, Calif. – Officials now say that it was wear and tear, and not a collision with a bird, that damaged the windshield of Oprah Winfrey’s private jet and forced it to return to the city airport.

“There was no bird involved, but the pilot did tell my captain that he felt it was a fatigue thing with the glass,” Battalion Chief John Ahlman, a Santa Barbara City Fire Department spokesman, said Tuesday.

Ahlman had earlier attributed the damage to a bird.

Winfrey, host of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, weren’t hurt in Monday’s incident, which occurred just after the jet had taken off from Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.

Talking points

New York – Sienna Miller says the biggest lesson she’s learned this year is “hold your cards close to your vest.”

“I’ve got a huge mouth, especially when it comes to my business,” the 24-year-old actress tells Life magazine in its Dec. 30 issue. “But I’ve realized that if you start talking about things, you open up a floodgate.”

Miller’s engagement to her “Alfie” co-star Jude Law appeared to fall apart after Law publicly apologized in July for having an affair with his children’s nanny. Reports in recent weeks had suggested the couple were back together.

“I find it odd that people ask me things like, ‘Why did you take (Jude Law) back?’ I don’t regret anything,” she tells the magazine, when asked to look back on 2005.

Miller stars in “Casanova,” which opened in U.S. theaters on Christmas Day.