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Food Network restaurant interventionist Robert Irvine (right) high-fives Valley Inn co-owner Frankie Ristucci as his brother, Dennis Ristucci, another owner, looks on in Palos Hills. | Matt Marton-Sun-Times Media
Food Network restaurant interventionist Robert Irvine, left, does push-ups with Dennis Ristucci, an owner of the Valley Inn, while taking a break from filming a makeover show in Palos Hills. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Food Network restaurant interventionist Robert Irvine (center) does push-ups with Valley Inn co-owner Frankie Ristucci as his brother, Dennis Ristucci, another owner, looks on, in Palos Hills. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Food Network restaurant interventionist Robert Irvine, center, laughs with Valley Inn owners Dennis Ristucci, left, and Frankie Ristucci, while taking a break from filming a makeover show in Palos Hills. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
Food Network restaurant interventionist Robert Irvine laughs as he enters the Valley Inn while taking a break from filming a makeover show at the restaurant in Palos Hills, IL on Thursday July 19, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
A Food Network worker brings in a new item for the Valley Inn as it is being filmed for a makeover show at the restaurant in Palos Hills, IL on Thursday July 19, 2012. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
He’s tough. He’s demanding. And he’s got a reputation for making restaurant owners repent, if not cry. But for a short time Thursday afternoon, Robert Irvine, host of the Food Network’s “Restaurant: Impossible” 24-hour makeover show, dropped to do more than 20 push-ups in what … Read More