Tina Turner says she’ll tour again

It may take some creative editing when Tina Turner announces her final tour on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on May 8.

Early in the taping Saturday before a Colosseum crowd of about 3,000 at Caesars Palace, Cher, the first guest, let the cat out of the bag when she let the tour news slip.

Later in the taping, it appeared a replacement segment was being shot with Turner so it would appear she was breaking the news.

Turner, 68, told Oprah that she was making her final tour, starting in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 1. She retired from major tours after her "Twenty Four Seven" world tour that grossed $80 million.

The Oprah show airs May 8, two days after Cher opens her three-year, 200-show headliner residency deal at Caesars Palace.

Turner said she's been getting antsy to return to the stage, but didn't get serious about it until she had a conversation with Italian film icon Sophia Loren in Milan, Italy. "She said 'When are you going back to work?'"

Turner told Oprah, "You can't forget the fun, the lights and the people."

Turner sang "Nutbush City Limits," an ode to her hometown in Tennessee, and teamed up with Cher to bring the house down with "Proud Mary" at the end of the taping.

THE SCENE AND HEARD

Lindsay Lohan didn't show up for gal pal Samantha Ronson's DJ appearance Friday for the grand opening of Torrid nightclub at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone inside the Planet Hollywood Resort. They were seen checking in and dining at Strip House (Planet Hollywood Resort) earlier Friday evening. ...

The word from inside KLAS-TV, Channel 8 is that the search for the new owner of the station has been narrowed to one company and it is someone very familiar with KLAS. ...

Turns out that this is the second time that Ted Binion's home has been up for sale since he was found dead in the den in 1998. It was to a Los Angeles resident for $750,000 in December 2002, or half of the listing price. The owner was asking $2.75 million last July before reducing it to today's listed price of $1.85 million. A Hollywood producer has expressed interest in renting it for a film, I'm told. ...

NASCAR pit reporter Jamie Little won the 32nd annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in Long Beach last week and it was no fluke. The Green Valley High grad edged NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion Mike Skinner by 0.324 seconds. The only other woman to win the event was Olympic gold medal swimmer Dara Torres, another Las Vegan, in 2002. Of course it helps that Little is co-owner of Pole Position Raceway, an indoor Las Vegas go-cart facility.

SIGHTINGS

Jessica Simpson and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, dining at AGO (Hard Rock Hotel) on Friday. ... Music star Pharrell Williams and members of his hip-hop group, N.E.R.D., at Tao (The Venetian) for dinner and clubbing. ... Los Angeles Angels pitcher Kelvim Escobar, on the injured list after winning 18 games last year, checking out The Bank nightclub (Bellagio) on Friday.

THE PUNCH LINE

This is another case of immigrants taking a job that Americans don't want." -- Craig Ferguson, the Scot-born CBS talk show host who addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday.

Norm Clarke can be reached at 383-0244 or norm@reviewjournal.com. Find additional sightings and more online at www.normclarke.com.