Blake Lively is poised to become a bonafide star, and Ryan D’Agostino thinks he may have scored the last-ever interview with the real her, as she bakes him a pie while discussing her blossoming career. Another person wants his early associations with the Gossip Girl made known, too: Ben Affleck, who cast her in September’s The Town. “I didn’t quite discover her, but at least I want to say I bought the stock when it wasn’t $500 a share,” he says.

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