 After about 10 years of shows in European casinos, the presenter Pippo Baudo, who had noticed him during an exhibition in an Antenna Sicilia TV-show, launched his career casting him in the 1980 edition of the popular show "Domenica in".He is best known for his experiments of hypnotism to people and animals.In 2004 Casella participated to the Rai 1 reality show "Il ristorante", ranking fourth, and in 2008 he was a contestant in "L'Isola dei Famosi" (the Italian version of "Celebrity Survivor"), retiring for health problems.