Rihanna woken by hotel fire

Rihanna suffered a rude awakening this morning when she was one of 300 guests evacuated from a London hotel after a lift shaft caught fire.

The star tweeted a picture of a fire engine outside the hotel in Whitehall Place to her 21.5 million followers.

Fire in the Telly #evacuationlife http://t.co/upcUvVFH

— Rihanna (@rihanna) June 27, 2012

A London Fire Brigade spokesman said no one was injured in the blaze.