Giucas Casella (; born Giuseppe Casella on 15 November 1949) is an Italian illusionist, hypnotist and television personality.

Life and career

Born in

Termini Imerese Termini Imerese (; ) is a town of the Metropolitan City of Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily, in Italy. It is one of the most important towns of the Metropolitan City of Palermo, from which it is 33 km away. The town is easily reachabl ...

, Palermo, he started his career at 17 years old, performing in a disco in

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. After about 10 years of shows in European casinos, the presenter

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, 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 ''

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''. He is best known for his experiments of hypnotism to people and animals. In 2004, Casella participated to the

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reality show ''Il ristorante'', ranking fourth, and in 2008 he was a contestant in ''

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'' (the Italian version of ''

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''), retiring for health problems. In 2018 he was once again a contestant in ''L'Isola dei famosi'', retiring once again for health problems. In 2021 he competed on the sixth season of ''

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'' (the Italian version of ''

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'') getting evicted on Day 183, finishing in the 6th position.

Personal life

Giucas Casella lives with actress Valeria Perilli and has a son from another relationship. He considers himself Catholic.

References

External links

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