ROCK star Tina Turner may have retired from touring – but not her namesake who is now appearing in Longwood.

And the diva may have posed the question What’s Love Got To Do With It? which has been answered by none other than ... the Rev Tina Turner.

For she is now temporary priest at St Mark’s Church in Longwood and her sermon has focussed exclusively on the power of love.

Both Tinas celebrate their birthdays in November and 49-year-old Rev Tina Turner got her famous name right at the height of the rock star’s 1980s solo fame.

The Rev Turner said: “I was Tina Machin until I married Kevin Turner in 1985 and became Tina Turner.

“Tina Turner’s had just had her major comeback, but I thought it would only last for a short time and all the jokes about my name would disappear.

“But her fame has just gone on and on. I’ve hard all the jokes now – many times. I always get Simply The Best written on mother’s day cards!’’

Tina is a counsellor for ChildLIne in Leeds and said: “When I go out to give talks to young children, even they know who Tina Turner is.’’

She said she went to a Tina Turner concert in Sheffield in the mid 1980s and asked if she could go backstage to meet her namesake – but was not allowed.

Yet Kevin told other fans he was with Tina Turner – and some got her autograph so they could go home and joke they had Tina Turner’s moniker.

Tina will celebrate her 50th birthday and her 25th wedding anniversary this year.

The couple have three children – 22-year-old Georgina, 21-year-old Joe and 17-year-old Lottie and live in Barkisland.

Tina is a priest in that parish area which includes Barkisland, Ripponden and Rishworth.

She has been a priest for nine years and was a curate in Calderdale, but has also spent time as a priest in south London.

Before she was ordained she worked in public relations for Northamptonshire Youth Service.

“I came back to Yorkshire about 18 months ago and help where needed,’’ she said.

She is standing in at Longwood because the vicar there, the Rev Jim Hunt, is away ill.

Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939.

Tina found fame with husband Ike in the 1960s, but it was a troubled relationship and they split in the mid 1970s when she fled from him.

She pursued a solo career and became a megastar in 1984 with the release of her Private Dancer album which sold 11 million copies worldwide.

A single from the album, What’s Love Got To Do With It, shot to number one in the USA – a position she had never reached as Ike and Tina Turner.

Her success went on and on and she eventually won eight Grammy music awards.

Ike died aged 76 from an apparent overdose in December 2007.

Tina now lives with German-born Erwin Bach, her partner of 22 years, in Switzerland and France.