By David Perel - Executive Vice President/Managing Editor Breaking Celebrity News

One of the best-known remaining cast members of the embattled reality show Storage Wars refuses to deny that the show has faked scenes, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting exclusively.

Despite being asked several times, Darrell Sheets, known as “The Gambler” on the A&E hit, repeatedly ducked the question from Breaking Celebrity News and would not back up his network’s claim that the show is genuine.

Instead, Sheets lashed out at fired cast member Dave Hester who exposed the show’s practices in a lawsuit he filed against A&E and its production company, alleging that scenes are routinely faked. Hester’s suit provided details about producers planting interesting and/or valuable items in purchased lockers.

Breaking Celebrity News reported exclusively that producers often “salted” the lockers in front of multiple eyewitnesses while taking a break from taping and even paid some cast members a “rental fee” for interesting items they already owned to be placed in the lockers!

A&E has not commented on the lawsuit, but the network has previously contended the show is real.

Now Sheets, who scored what appeared to be a major find of artwork in an episode that aired this week, is uncomfortably ducking the issue and refusing to repeat his network’s assertion that the show is real and not staged.

“Darrell, are u denying lockers have been "salted" during the show's run? And will you deny it when deposed?,” Sheets was asked five times in two days by Breaking Celebrity News’s managing editor.

The question was sometimes slightly