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Imagine you’re a chauffeur and when lunchtime rolls around, your boss says, “Run down to the restaurant and grab me a sandwich.” But on the way home, you hit traffic. When you finally roll up with the sandwich–as quick as you possibly could–security greets you at the door. They tell you they “Have to let you go.” You can’t believe it, Fired? For getting stuck in traffic!? Yup, apparently the boss “was really hungry.” According to The Mirror, this is exactly what happened to one of Kanye West’s staff drivers.

The Mirror’s Dean Piper claims an “impeccable source in Camp Kanye.” According to this source, Kanye West “employs 10 or so people. Three bodyguards, a number of drivers and his own personal chef Jennifer goes ­everywhere with him to cook whatever he wants on-site.”

Other sources confirm that as celebrities go, the rapper and producer is also notoriously demanding of this staff. For example, none of his employees are allowed to wear polyester or other “man made” fibers in his presence. That’s right, they must wear 100% cotton to work–down to their underoos. Kanye West’s lawyers admitted the rapper fired a security guard because the man refused to cut off his dreadlocks to appease West. That guard is suing Kanye West, claiming the rapper yells at his Black guards often but not his white guards. He’s also suing for religious discrimination, claiming he was discriminated against for being a Muslim.

On a recent trip to London, Kanye West was staying in a five-star hotel. Here’s what the Mirror’s source claimed: instead of a meal prepared by his chef, or by room service, Kanye West got a craving for food from a specific restaurant. The source said, ““Kanye decided he wanted a Selfridges lunch and sent the driver out. Obviously, he’s never heard of the Tube… and London suffers from horrendous traffic.”

Kanye West found out the hard way how horrendous London traffic is

Horrendous is the correct word. During TomTom’s latest study ranking the world’s worst traffic, London got the number one spot. During rush hour, the’ average speed is 9 MPH. On average, it takes over 36 minutes to travel just six miles. Approximately 45% of the city is considered “congested” and the average London resident loses 143 hours a year trapped in traffic. To top it off, the study found London’s getting worse, year-over-year.

The source continued: “The driver left at 1pm and didn’t make it back until 3pm.” That’s one long drive! But this tells us a couple of things. Kanye didn’t decide what he wanted until after noon, then expected it to arrive quickly. As the minutes and hours ticked by, he could have just ordered something from room service or a closer restaurant. But it seems the star was stubbornly waiting for his Selfridges food instead.

When the driver finally got back to the hotel, Kanye West wouldn’t even face him himself. The source added, “The head of ­security told him: ‘I’m sorry but I’m going to have to let you go. You took too long and Kanye got pi**ed off. He was really hungry.’” The source concluded that the driver planned on taking Kanye West to court over the termination.

So if every word the source said was true we know: Kanye West sent a driver out at one for some lunch. The driver arrived at three and the head of security told him he was being fired over the two hour wait. Did Kanye West order him fired? We don’t know. Did the head of security even have the authority to fire the driver? We don’t know. Did this firing stick? Maybe not.

Kanye West’s camp fires back

Perez Hilton reports that after the story went viral, one of Kanye West’s publicists contacted him and said that “Mr. Wests’s drivers are happily employed.”

Did this publicist know the situation in London? Or were they just running damage control from the USA? Again, we don’t know. Why didn’t someone reach out to the Mirror? No saying.

Here’s the final piece of the puzzle: no lawsuit has emerged. So the driver either had a change of heart or Camp Kanye made things right with them.

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